calamus

calamus is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
2. noun. A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.
3. noun. The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.
4. noun. the hollow spine of a feather

   Synonyms: quill, shaft

5. noun. a genus of Sparidae
6. noun. perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots

   Synonyms: flagroot

7. noun. the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally
8. noun. any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes

Synonyms

quill, shaft, flagroot

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in calamus:

maculas

Common word forms

calamuses

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