CALAMUS

See CANE.

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Calamus. Calamus
The Latin for cane, Hebrew Kaneh, mentioned (Ex. 30:23) as one of the ingredients in the holy anointing oil, one of the sweet scents (Cant. 4:14), and among the articles sold in the markets of Tyre (Ezek. 27:19). The word designates an Oriental plant called the “sweet flag,” the Acorus calamus of Linnaeus. It is elsewhere called “sweet cane” (Isa. 43:24; Jer. 6:20). It has an aromatic smell, and when its knotted stalk is cut and dried and reduced to powder, it forms an ingredient in the most precious perfumes. It was not a native of Palestine, but was imported from Arabia Felix or from India. It was probably that which is now known in India by the name of “lemon grass” or “ginger grass,” the Andropogon schoenanthus. (See CANE.)

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CALAMUS. → A sweet cane of Palestine So 4:14; Eze 27:19 → An ingredient of the holy ointment Ex 30:23; Isa 43:24 → Commerce in Jer 6:20; Eze 27:19

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calamus. Calamus, n. a kind of reed or sweetscented wood

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Cal″a‐mus (?), n.; pl. Calami (#). [[L., a reed. See Halm.]] 1. 1. (Bot.) The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.
2. 2. (Bot.) A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.
3. 3. (Zoöl.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.