calamus
Noun
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Noun
calamus (uncountable)
- The sweet flag, Acorus calamus.
- Song of Solomon 4:12-14, KJV
- A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices
- Song of Solomon 4:12-14, KJV
- (ornithology) A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.
- (Christianity, historical) Synonym of fistula#English|fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”)
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