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Acorus

A'CORUS, n. [L. from Gr..]
1. Aromatic Calamus, sweet flag, or sweet rush.
2. In natural history, blue coral, which grows in the form of a tree, on a rocky bottom, in some parts of the African seas. it is brought from the Camarones and Benin.
3. In medicine, this name is sometimes given to the great galangal.
acorus appears in definitions for these words:
Calamus Sweet-flag Sweet-rush Sword-grass

 

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