myrtle flag

Questions about myrtle flag

What does myrtle flag mean?

myrtle flag means "perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots".

What is another word for myrtle flag?

Close synonyms include sweet flag, calamus, sweet calamus, flagroot, Acorus calamus. 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 myrtle flag a common word?

myrtle flag 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.