calamus
Noun
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is a type of: palm, palm tree - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leavessubtypes:
- calamus rotang, rattan, rattan palm - climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes
- calamus australis, lawyer cane - tall scrambling spiny palm of northeastern Queensland, Australia
belongs to: genus calamus - distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest -
is a type of: root - (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the groundis a part of: acorus calamus, calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag - perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots
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is a type of: bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant - a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heathbelongs to: acorus, genus acorus - sweet flags; sometimes placed in subfamily Acoraceaehas: calamus - the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinallysubstance holonym: calamus oil - carcinogenic oil from calamus root used as a perfume
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is a type of: fish genus - any of various genus of fishmember holonym: calamus penna, sheepshead porgy - from Florida and Bahamas to Brazilbelongs to: family sparidae, sparidae - porgies; scupssame as: genus calamus
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is a type of: rib - a riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant
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