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Definition of Sweet calamus

1. Noun. Perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Calamus

Literary usage of Sweet calamus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scripture Natural History by Henry Chichester Hart, William Howse Groser (1888)
"'Take of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels.'—Exod. xxx. 23. ... All, however, that we know of Calamus, sweet calamus, or Sweet Cane amounts to ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... confection called kupl:ir compounded of no fewer than sixteen ingredients, among which were honey, wine, raisins, resin, myrrh and sweet calamus. ..."

3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"Pliny also in his writings says :—" Within Arabia there groweth the sweet calamus, which is common both to this country and to the Syrians likewise, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... compounded of no fewer than sixteen ingredients, among which were honey, wine, raisins, resin, myrrh and sweet calamus. While it was being mixed, ..."

5. A Scripture Herbal by Maria Callcott (1842)
"THE Sweet Cane of Isaiah is the sweet calamus of Exodus, the Calamus of the ... Yet though the name of sweet calamus was handed down by the Greek and Latin ..."

6. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: The Text Carefully by Adam Clarke (1837)
"... five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels-, and of sweet ' calamus two hundred and fifty shekels. ..."

7. Scripture Natural History by Henry Chichester Hart, William Howse Groser (1888)
"'Take of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels.'—Exod. xxx. 23. ... All, however, that we know of Calamus, sweet calamus, or Sweet Cane amounts to ..."

8. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Old English Bible Words by Jonathan Eastwood (1866)
"Calamo odorato, sweet Calamus. Florio, Ital. Diet. ... also the sweet Calamus, which is common to the Indians and Syrians likewise. ..."

9. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... confection called kupl:ir compounded of no fewer than sixteen ingredients, among which were honey, wine, raisins, resin, myrrh and sweet calamus. ..."

10. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"Pliny also in his writings says :—" Within Arabia there groweth the sweet calamus, which is common both to this country and to the Syrians likewise, ..."

11. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... compounded of no fewer than sixteen ingredients, among which were honey, wine, raisins, resin, myrrh and sweet calamus. While it was being mixed, ..."

12. A Scripture Herbal by Maria Callcott (1842)
"THE Sweet Cane of Isaiah is the sweet calamus of Exodus, the Calamus of the ... Yet though the name of sweet calamus was handed down by the Greek and Latin ..."

13. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: The Text Carefully by Adam Clarke (1837)
"... five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels-, and of sweet ' calamus two hundred and fifty shekels. ..."

14. The Bible Word-book: A Glossary of Old English Bible Words by Jonathan Eastwood (1866)
"Calamo odorato, sweet Calamus. Florio, Ital. Diet. ... also the sweet Calamus, which is common to the Indians and Syrians likewise. ..."

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