Calamus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CALAMUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Latin) a quill or reed used as a pen
• a preparation of the aromatic root of the sweet flag.
• the hollow lower part of the shaft of a feather, which lacks barbs; a quill.
• tropical Asian palm
• The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon\'s blood.
• A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.
• The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.
• 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
• a genus of Sparidae
• the hollow spine of a feather
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a marsh plant

Words related to CALAMUS

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Words that contain CALAMUS

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How to use CALAMUS in a sentence

• Garlic, calamus aromaticus, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, each, 1 drachm.
• It is found in the dense brushes along with three other palms, Seaforthia, Corypha, and Calamus.
• It is made of long bunches of very light and soft shreds, like fine twisted grass, apparently the prepared leaf of a calamus or rattan.
• About five miles further up its source was found to be a spring among rocks in a dense calamus scrub.
• The remainder of our march was through heavy jungle, many parts of which were very low, and crowded with a fierce Calamus.
• I noticed among and around the pits a species of Bambusa, Celtis, Kydia calycina, Clerodendrum infortunatum, Calamus, Areca, Dicksonia, Ficus, Pentaptera, and Rottlera.
• Calamus spioris petiolorum uncialibus verticillatis occurs in abundance in all the damp jungle.

Similar words containing CALAMU without suffix s

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