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Meanings of sweet calamus in English
Portuguese
açoro 
Perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots.
Synonyms
Examples for "calamus"
Examples for "calamus"
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.
1
Aunt Merce rummaged her pocket for flagroot; mother resumed her paper.
2
A short, quick stalk, and the muskrat, still eating a flagroot, was within thirty feet.
3
She took her handkerchief and a bit of flagroot from her pocket, to be ready for the sympathetic flow which she expected.
4
Therein she kept her keys, her smelling-bottle, her pocket-book, her handkerchief and her spectacles, a bit of flagroot and some liquorice stick.
1
Water parsnip, sweet flag, cinquefoil, bat's blood, deadly nightshade, and oil.
2
Some, like meadowsweet and cowslips, sweet flag and spikenard, are like the names of Shakespeare fairies.
3
Among the other substances generally employed in its manufacture are angelica root, sweet flag, dittany leaves, star-anise fruit, fennel and hyssop.
4
Sweet flag was abundant, and close by grew a clump of dark green, spicy mint.