Calamus
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Calamus may mean:
- Sweet flag (Acorus calamus), a herb
- Calamus (genus, botany), a genus of rattan palms
- Calamus (genus, zoology), a genus of fish in the family Sparidae.
- Calamus, Iowa
- Calamus, Wisconsin
- Calamus, a desktop publishing application
- Calamus (Kalamos), a figure in Greek mythology who turned into a reed out of grief for his young male lover Karpos, who drowned.
- Calamus (poem), a series of poems by American writer Walt Whitman.
- Calamus, the hollow shaft of a feather, also known as the quill