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sweet calamus

noun

perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots

• Syn: ↑sweet flag, ↑calamus, ↑myrtle flag, ↑flagroot, ↑Acorus calamus

• Hypernyms: ↑marsh plant, ↑bog plant, ↑swamp plant

• Member Holonyms: ↑Acorus, ↑genus Acorus

• Substance Meronyms: ↑calamus oil

• Part Meronyms: ↑calamus

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noun or sweet cane

1. : sweet flag

2.

a. : sugarcane

b. : a grass (Andropogon aromaticus) of northwestern India that has leaves that are aromatic when bruised or broken

Useful english dictionary. 2012.