sweet calamus

Questions about sweet calamus

What does sweet calamus mean?

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

What is another word for sweet calamus?

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

sweet 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.