calamus

Signification (Anglais)

1. (uncountable, usually) The sweet flag, Acorus calamus.
2. (uncountable, usually) A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.
3. (uncountable, usually) A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies.
4. (uncountable, usually) A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms.
5. (uncountable, usually) A fistular stem without an articulation.
6. (historical, uncountable, usually) Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”).

Concepts

jonc odorant

acore odorant

acore

calame

lis des marais

Calamus

plume

🪶

tu

roseau aromatique

acorus calamus

Synonymes

sweet flag

quill

flagroot

myrtle flag

shaft

sweet calamus

Acorus calamus

sweet-flag

fishbone

acorus aclamus

flag

iris

rattan

ray

rattan palm

Anemone altaica fischer

rhizoma calami

Traductions

kalmoes

calamo

cálamo

cálamo aromático

Kalmus

cálamo

calamo aromatico

acoro

càlam

ácoro

Calamus

καλάμι φτερού

Acorus calamus

Étymologie (Anglais)

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