Portuguese
açoro 
Perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots.
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Oil, from Exodus 30: Olive oil infused with cinnamon, calamus, cassia and myrrh.
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He had also pennyroyal for healing teas, and calamus and bitter-bark for miseries.
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The jays are bluer than the calamus bed they wrangle above with throaty chatter.
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In seven large bowls he places calamus, cedarwood, and incense.
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Barbs showed a lower denaturation temperature than rachis and calamus.
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Water parsnip, sweet flag, cinquefoil, bat's blood, deadly nightshade, and oil.
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Some, like meadowsweet and cowslips, sweet flag and spikenard, are like the names of Shakespeare fairies.
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Among the other substances generally employed in its manufacture are angelica root, sweet flag, dittany leaves, star-anise fruit, fennel and hyssop.
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Sweet flag was abundant, and close by grew a clump of dark green, spicy mint.
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Aunt Merce rummaged her pocket for flagroot; mother resumed her paper.
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A short, quick stalk, and the muskrat, still eating a flagroot, was within thirty feet.
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She took her handkerchief and a bit of flagroot from her pocket, to be ready for the sympathetic flow which she expected.
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Therein she kept her keys, her smelling-bottle, her pocket-book, her handkerchief and her spectacles, a bit of flagroot and some liquorice stick.