cal·a·mus (kal'ă-mŭs),

1. The dried, unpeeled rhizome of Acorus calamus (family Araceae), cultivated in Myanmar (Burma) and
Sri Lanka, a carminative and anthelmintic.

2. A reed-shaped structure.

[L. reed, a pen]

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calamus (kăl′ə-məs)

n. pl. cala·mi (-mī′)

1.

a. See sweet flag.

b. The aromatic rhizome of the sweet flag, used for medicinal purposes and yielding an oil used in
perfumery.

2. Any of various chiefly tropical Asian climbing palms of the genus Calamus, having strong flexible stems
used as a source of rattan.

3. See quill.

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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

sweet flag A perennial herb, the rhizone of which contains mucilage, sesquiterpenes and volatile oils
(azulene, camphor, cineole, eugenol, pinene and others); it is carminative, spasmolytic and mildly
sedative.

Chinese medicine

In traditional Chinese medicine, sweet flag has been used for deafness, seizures and vertigo.

Herbal medicine

In Western herbal medicine, sweet flag has been used for fever, gastrointestinal complaints (dyspepsia
and flatulence), menstrual disorders, toothache and tobacco addiction.
Toxicity

Aserone, one of sweet flag’s volatile oils, is carcinogenic; the FDA has classified sweet flag as “unsafe”.

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cal·a·mus (kal'ă-mŭs)

A reed-shaped structure.

[L. reed, a pen]

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calamus

the quill of a feather.

any hollow, nodeless stem.

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Propertius 3.3, where he describes his own initiation on Helicon involving a cave decorated with, among
other things, a day portrait of Silenus and calami (the same instruments that Linus will hand over to
Gallus).

Linus as a figure for pastoral poetics in Vergil's Eclogues

Aqui podemos apreciar la existencia del lapsus calami, es decir, el sujeto quiere escribir un abeto pero
escribe un cipres.

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The deep-sea and high-latitude species Voss (1988) assigned to Eledoninae (excluding species of Eledone
that could not be included) score positively on PC3, indicative of relatively long calami, and near zero on
PC2.

If species that produced wide spermatophores had long ligulae or calami, the plot would show a U-
shape, which it does not.

Hanlon and Messenger (1996) could not document body patterning complexity among octopuses from
deep-sea and high-latitude environments where visual predators are thought to be rare, if ligula and
calamus lengths reflect the level of predation by visual predators, octopuses from these areas are
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Morphometric analysis of male reproductive features of Octopodids (mollusca: cephalopoda)

Por eso, un "lapsus linguae" es el error involuntario que se comete al hablar, y un "lapsus calami", el
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