calamus
IPA: kˈæɫʌmʌs
noun
- The sweet flag, Acorus calamus.
- (ornithology) A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.
- A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies.
- A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms.
- (Christianity, historical) Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”)
- A small town in Clinton County, Iowa, United States, named after a creek.
- A town in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Examples of "calamus" in Sentences
- The meaning of Calamus as a symbol.
- Calamus Swamp has a wide range of animals.
- The calamus has long been a symbol of love.
- Calamus australis is known as the hairy mary.
- The basal part of the calamus is without vanes.
- Calamus is a genus of the palm family Arecaceae.
- Calamus, which is related to the cattail plant, has different strains.
- In the poems the calamus is used as a symbol of love, lust, and affection.
- Second, the THC properties inherent in cannabis is not present in calamus.
- To date there is no solid evidence of any hallucinogenic substances in calamus.
- Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
- In the garden grow "an orchard of pomegranates . . . spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense".
- For writing upon paper or parchment, the Romans employed a reed, sharpened and split in the point like our pens, called calamus, arundo, or canna.
- Herophilus, after whom the torcular herophili within the skull is named, and who invented the term calamus scriptorius for certain appearances in the fourth ventricle.
- Centering herself with a deep breath, she drizzled the oil over her hands and fingers, releasing the sharp scents of cinnamon and cassia, myrrh and calamus into the air.
- The "calamus" followed the "brush," just as phonographic writing which denotes arbitrary sounds or the language of symbols, came after the picture or ideographic writing.
- Jean-Julien pulled out and uncorked the vial, releasing the pungent odor of bergamot, licorice, and calamus root into the still air—a potent bend-over blend—and carefully tapped a portion of the black powder into the palm of his hand.
- In 1936 a Polish Anthropologist named Sula Benet discovered that in the original Hebrew of the Old Testament the word "kaneh bosm" had been translated as calamus or fragrant cane by the Greeks when they first rendered the Books in the 3rd century BC.
- In 1936 a Polish Anthropologist named Sula Benet discovered that in the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament the word "kaneh bosm" had been translated as calamus by the Greeks when they first rendered the Books in the 3rd century B.C., and then propagated as such in all future translations from the Greek as Hebrew ceased to be a spoken language, not again revived until the 1800's.