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Acorus
A'CORUS
,Noun.
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.Definition 2024
Acorus
Acorus
See also: acorus
Translingual
Proper noun
Acorus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Acoraceae - sweet flag.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots - clades; Acorales - order; Acoraceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Acorus americanus (or Acorus calamus var. americanus), Acorus calamus Acorus gramineus - species
acorus
acorus
See also: Acorus
Latin
Alternative forms
Noun
acorus f (genitive acorī); second declension
- an aromatic plant, perhaps sweet flag or calamus
Declension
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | acorus | acorī |
| genitive | acorī | acorōrum |
| dative | acorō | acorīs |
| accusative | acorum | acorōs |
| ablative | acorō | acorīs |
| vocative | acore | acorī |
Descendants
- Translingual: Acorus
References
- acorus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ACORUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “acorus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.