calamus

Betekenis (Engels)

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”).

Concepten

kalmoes

Synoniemen

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

Vertalingen

calamo

cálamo aromático

Kalmus

jonc odorant

cálamo

ácoro

cálamo

càlam

acoro

acore

calame

acore odorant

lis des marais

Etymologie (Engels)

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