How to pronounce “calamus”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The sweet flag, Acorus calamus.
• (ornithology) A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.
• A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies.
• A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms.
• (botany) A fistular stem without an articulation.
• (Christianity, historical) Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”).

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