noun
carcinogenic oil from calamus root used as a perfume
• Hypernyms: ↑oil
• Substance Holonyms: ↑sweet flag, ↑calamus, ↑sweet calamus, ↑myrtle flag, ↑flagroot, ↑Acorus calamus
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noun : a yellow aromatic carcinogenic essential oil obtained from the underground parts of the sweet flag and used as a perfume and formerly as a flavor
Useful english dictionary. 2012.