Perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots.
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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.
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