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Meanings of calamus in English
Portuguese
açoro 
Perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots.
Synonyms
Examples for "shaft"
Examples for "shaft"
1
Over the mountains in the east came the first shaft of day.
2
This was the farthest point from the shaft in the entire mine.
3
Used four times at the base of the shaft near the tower.
4
She almost didn't see it in time- averticalshaft yawning directly ahead.
5
A minute later, ballast men slide into view in the secondary shaft.
1
However, anyone with a quill and an inkhorn can forge mundane text.
2
He heard the scraping of the quill on paper and he spun.
3
He dipped his quill, thought for a moment, and then began writing.
4
That's all.' He waved a quill dismissively, and I bowed and left.
5
There are actually boney quill knobs that are present on its forearm.
Portuguese
calamus Catalan
genus calamus Usage of calamus in English
1
Oil, from Exodus 30: Olive oil infused with cinnamon, calamus, cassia and myrrh.
2
He had also pennyroyal for healing teas, and calamus and bitter-bark for miseries.
3
The jays are bluer than the calamus bed they wrangle above with throaty chatter.
4
In seven large bowls he places calamus, cedarwood, and incense.
5
Barbs showed a lower denaturation temperature than rachis and calamus.
6
Thus Adam gathered saffron, nard, calamus, and cinnamon, and all sorts of seeds besides for his sustenance.
7
The "calamus" followed the "brush," just as
8
Shake out the cinnamon, and the saffron, and the calamus, and the frankincense, and pass it into the treasure house.
9
About five miles further up its source was found to be a spring among rocks in a dense calamus scrub.
10
Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.
11
Spikenard an saffron, calamus an cinnamon, wud all trees of frankincense, myrrh, an allers, wud all de best of spices.
12
The places where the calamus grew and the modes of preparing them are variously discussed by different ancient and modern writers.
13
Electron microscopic studies on the calamus of plucked feathers revealed numerous C-type virus particles in intercellular spaces of the epidermis and pulp.
14
Here also grew camphire, with spikenard, and saffron, calamus, and cinnamon, with all its trees of frankincense, myrrh, and aloes, with all chief spices.
15
Here also grew camphor, with spikenard, and saffron, calamus, and cinnamon, with all its trees of frankincense, myrrh, and aloes, with all chief spices.
16
It is made of long bunches of very light and soft shreds, like fine twisted grass, apparently the prepared leaf of a calamus or rattan.
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