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Calamus

noun

(pl. calami)

Any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes.

The aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally.

Perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots. Synonyms: Acorus calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag.

A genus of Sparidae. Synonym: genus Calamus.

The hollow spine of a feather. Synonyms: quill, shaft.

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... was too little to 'member much 'bout slavery time. All de little niggers run 'round in deir shirt-tails in summer time; never work any, just hunt for grapes, muscadines, strawberries, chinquapins, hickory nuts, calamus root, slippery elmer (elm) bark, wild cherries, mulberries, and red and black haws, and was as happy as de days ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... ripe. If you write with a sowre Grape that would be black, or with Cervices; when you hold them to the fire they are concocted, and will give the same colour they would in due time give upon the tree, when they were ripe. Juice of Cherries, added to Calamus, will make a green: to sow- bread a red: so divers juices of Fruits will show divers colours by the fire. By these means Maids sending and receiving love-letters, escape from those that have charge of them. There is also a kind of Salt called Ammoniac: this powdered ...

— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho

Words linked to "Calamus" : sheepshead porgy, plumage, Sparidae, genus Acorus, rib, family Sparidae, rattan palm, palm tree, fish genus, swamp plant, feather, root, Calamus penna, sweet calamus, lawyer cane, marsh plant, Acorus, plume, rattan, palm, bog plant