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CALAMUS
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Irregular inflected form: calami
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The hollow spine of a feather
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("calamus" is a kind of...):
rib (a riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant)
Holonyms ("calamus" is a part of...):
feather; plumage; plume (the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A genus of Sparidae
Synonyms:
Calamus; genus Calamus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("Calamus" is a kind of...):
fish genus (any of various genus of fish)
Meronyms (members of "Calamus"):
Calamus penna; sheepshead porgy (from Florida and Bahamas to Brazil)
Holonyms ("Calamus" is a member of...):
family Sparidae; Sparidae (porgies; scups)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots
Synonyms:
Acorus calamus; calamus; flagroot; myrtle flag; sweet calamus; sweet flag
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("calamus" is a kind of...):
bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)
Meronyms (parts of "calamus"):
calamus (the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally)
Meronyms (substance of "calamus"):
calamus oil (carcinogenic oil from calamus root used as a perfume)
Holonyms ("calamus" is a member of...):
Acorus; genus Acorus (sweet flags; sometimes placed in subfamily Acoraceae)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("calamus" is a kind of...):
root ((botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground)
Holonyms ("calamus" is a part of...):
Acorus calamus; calamus; flagroot; myrtle flag; sweet calamus; sweet flag (perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("calamus" is a kind of...):
palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calamus"):
Calamus rotang; rattan; rattan palm (climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes)
Calamus australis; lawyer cane (tall scrambling spiny palm of northeastern Queensland, Australia)
Holonyms ("calamus" is a member of...):
genus Calamus (distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest)
