| calamus |
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 sweet flag: perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots a genus of Sparidae quill: the hollow spine of a feather
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| calamus scriptorius |
(the writing pen)
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| calamus |
Alternate name for a quill, ie, the bare portion of the feather where it is attached to the wing.
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| calamus |
Sweet tasting plant stalk probably like sugar cane.
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| calamus |
(KaXafjLos, Pollux, x. 15), a sort of reed which the ancients used as a pen for writing. (Cic. ad Aft. vi. 8 ; Hor. De Art. Poet. 447.) The best sorts were got from Aegypt and Cnidus. (Plin. //. N. xvi. 36, 64.) So Martial (xiv. 38), " Dat chartis habiles calamos Memphitica tellus." When the reed became blunt, it was sharpened with a knife, scalprum librarium (Tac. Ami. v. 8 ; Suet. VitelL 2) ; and to a reed so sharpened the epithet temperatus, used by Cicero, probably refers (Cic. Ad Qu. F. ...
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