sweet flag

1. 1.

   perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots

   Synonymscalamussweet calamusmyrtle flagflagrootAcorus calamus

   Broadermarsh plant

   Part ofAcorus

   Partscalamus

Questions about sweet flag

What does sweet flag mean?

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

What is another word for sweet flag?

Close synonyms include calamus, sweet 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 flag a common word?

sweet 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.