calamus
noun
High School
1
Sweet flag (Acorus calamus).
2
A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.
3
A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies.
4
A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms.
5
A fistular stem without an articulation.
6
Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”).