acorus calamus

Questions about acorus calamus

What does acorus calamus mean?

acorus calamus means "perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots".

What is another word for acorus calamus?

Close synonyms include sweet flag, calamus, sweet calamus, myrtle flag, flagroot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acorus calamus a common word?

acorus calamus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.