Meaning & use
Acorus calamus
A wetland plant, commonly called sweet flag, whose fragrant rhizome has long been used in traditional medicine and as a flavoring.
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Traditional healers dried the root of Acorus calamus to treat digestive complaints.
The pond's edge was thick with Acorus calamus, its sword-shaped leaves swaying in the breeze.
A note on using this word
Acorus calamus is the scientific (Latin) name and is conventionally italicized in print; 'sweet flag' or 'calamus' are the common English names.
Words with a similar meaning
sweet flag
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