calamus

Senso (Inglese)

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”).

Concetti

calamo

acoro

calamo aromatico

Acorus calamus

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

kalmoes

jonc odorant

Kalmus

cálamo

cálamo aromático

calame

ácoro

cálamo

càlam

acore odorant

acore

lis des marais

καλάμι φτερού

Etimologia (Inglese)

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