calamus

calamus has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
• n.. 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.
• n.. The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.
• n.. the hollow spine of a feather
• n.. a genus of Sparidae
• n.. perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots
• n.. the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally
• n.. any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes