calamus vs sweet flag

calamus

noun
  • A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms. 

  • A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather. 

  • Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”) 

  • The sweet flag, Acorus calamus. 

  • A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies. 

sweet flag

noun
  • A perennial wetland plant, Acorus calamus, with an aromatic medicinal root, formerly used to strew floors. 

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