calamus

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In the garden grow "an orchard of pomegranates . . . spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense".

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2011

Vaucher, sterility of Ranunculus ficaria and Acorus calamus, ii.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

Along the centre of the floor is the median furrow, which terminates below in a pen-shaped form, the so-called calamus scriptorius.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

The cinnabaris indica, mentioned by Pliny and Dioscorides, was what is vulgarly called dragon's blood, the resin obtained from various species of the calamus palm.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

Indeed the word calamus still lives, though corrupted to the French chalumeau and still further altered to the German Schalmei and the English shawm.

From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir