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单词 calamus
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calamusn.

Brit. /ˈkaləməs/, U.S. /ˈkæləməs/
Forms: Also 1500s kalmus, calmus.
Etymology: < Latin calamus, Greek κάλαμος reed.
1. A reed, a cane: vaguely used by early writers, after Latin or Greek authors. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > reed or the reed plant > reed or stalk
reedOE
calamusa1398
cane1398
roselc1450
whistle-stalka1657
spear1844
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xxx. 928 Strawe is ycleped calamus vsualis.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xxix. 927 Calamus aromaticus is a maner of kynde of spicery þat groweþ bisides mount Libany... And is..holowȝ wiþinne as a cane.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 57 Bastard or false Calamus doth growe naturally at the foote of a high hill neere to Prussia.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 375 The shorter and thicker that the reed is, the better is the Calamus.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 53 The true or bitter Calamus is a Kind of Reed.
2. sweet calamus n. C. aromaticus: (a) some eastern aromatic plant or plants (supposed by some to be Andropogon Schoenanthus, the Sweet-scented Lemon Grass of Malabar); (b) applied by some English herbalists to the native Sweet Flag or Sweet Rush ( Acorus Calamus).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > sweet calamus
calamya1382
sweet calamusa1398
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > sweet flag
beeworteOE
sweet calamusa1398
acorus?a1425
acorum1601
sweet rush1607
sweet cane1611
sweet smelling flag1640
sweet flag1790
myrtle flag1796
myrtle grass1796
flag-root1851
myrtle sedge1857
sweet sedge1857
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. lxxv. 769 Þerynne ben..a treo þat..hat canel, peper, and calamum, and [emended in ed. to þat] smellen ful swete.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ezek. xxvii. 19 Dan, and Greece, and Mosel, settiden forth in thi fairis..calamus.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. vi. 20 Wherfore bringe ye me..swete smellinge Calamus from farre countrees?
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxx. 23 Take thou..of sweet calamus [Coverdale Kalmus] two hundred and fiftie shekels. View more context for this quotation
1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 302 Broath..with..a little Angellica Seed, and Calamus.
1736 Compl. Family-piece i. iv. 171 Calamus Aromaticus 3 Ounces, Leaves of Wall-Rue 4 Ounces.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xviii. 258 Of Plants not liliaceous..as the Calamus Aromaticus or Sweet Rush.
1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend Nativity 147 Another goblet!.. Stir..drops of myrrh And calamus therein!
3. A genus of palms comprising many species, the stems of which grow to an extraordinary length, and form canes or rattans.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > rattan palm
rattan1681
jambee1704
rotan1771
calamus1836
Malacca cane1874
1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 135/2 Calamus..the species..grow in the forests, climbing over trees and bushes to a greater extent than any other known plants.
1885 H. M. Stanley Congo II. xxviii. 92 The luxuriant and endless lengths of calamus are useful for flooring and verandah mats.
4. ‘A fistular stem without an articulation’ ( Treasury Bot.).

Draft additions 1997

Ornithology. The lower, unbarbed part of the shaft of a bird's feather.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > part of
pen1381
quill?a1425
dowlc1535
rib1545
web1575
pilec1600
twill1664
beard1688
pinion1691
vane1713
shaft1748
beardlet1804
medulla1826
barb1835
barbule1835
stem1845
feather-pulp1859
aftershaft1867
barbicel1869
filament1870
vexillum1871
scape1872
rachis1874
harl1877
calamus1878
radius1882
ramus1882
scapus1882
cilia1884
1878 T. Dunman Gloss. Biol., Anat., & Physiol. Terms 18 Calamus, the quill of a bird's feather.
1940 Physiol. Zoöl. XIII. 155 In the formation of the calamus the same process..gives rise to a series of ‘horny’ partitions.
1974 D. Webster & M. Webster Compar. Vertebr. Morphol. viii. 168 The shaft of the pluma is composed of the calamus, which is embedded in the feather follicle and protrudes a short distance beyond it, and the rachis, which supports and is actually part of the feather's vane.
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