English Explanatory Dictionary

calamus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Sweet flag (Acorus calamus).
  2. A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.
  3. A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies.
  4. A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms.
  5. A fistular stem without an articulation.
  6. Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”).
name
  1. A small town in Clinton County, Iowa, United States, named after a creek.
  2. A town in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States.

Word forms

calamus calamuses calami

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos). Doublet of culm, haulm, helm (Etymology 4, stalk), qalam, and shawm.

Synonyms

fistula
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