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

The outside of the raw calamus is smooth and is made into commercial cane used for chairs.

From Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools by McGaw, Virginia

Cane, kān, n. the stem of one of the smaller palms—the calamus or rattan, or the larger grasses—bamboo and sugar-cane: a walking-stick.—v.t. to beat with a cane.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Herophilos has named after him the torcular herophili, and the name he gave the curious appearance in the floor of the fourth ventricle--the calamus scriptorius--is still retained.

From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.

At their bases these rudimentary barbs meet to form the calamus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various