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A small town in Clinton County, Iowa, United States, named after a creek.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A town in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States.
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noun
Sweet flag (Acorus calamus).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, ornithology
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noun
A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
A fistular stem without an articulation.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable, usually
Topics: Christianity
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Synonyms: fistula
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noun
the hollow spine of a feather
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: quill, shaft
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Broader terms: rib
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a genus of Sparidae
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: genus Calamus
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Broader terms: fish genus
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perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sweet flag, sweet calamus, myrtle flag, flagroot, Acorus calamus
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Broader terms: marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant
noun
the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally
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Broader terms: root
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any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: palm, palm tree
Narrower terms: rattan, rattan palm, Calamus rotang, lawyer cane, Calamus australis
History
Learned borrowing from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”). Doublet of culm, haulm, helm (Etymology 4, stalk), qalam, and shawm.
