swamp plant vs calamus

calamus vs swamp plant

swamp plant and calamus both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
swamp plant	Yes	No	No	No
calamus	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, calamus is a hyponym of swamp plant; that is, calamus is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than swamp plant:

swamp plant: a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath
calamus: perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots

Other hyponyms of swamp plant include lesser spearwort, Ranunculus flammula, greater spearwort, Ranunculus lingua, Caltha palustris, cowslip, kingcup, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon, rush, Acorus calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag, Calla palustris, water arum, wild calla, Lysichiton americanum, skunk cabbage, foetid pothos, polecat weed, skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, iva, marsh elder, sedge, cattail, sabbatia, yellow-eyed grass, Alisma plantago-aquatica, water plantain, arrow grass, Triglochin maritima, grass-of-Parnassus, parnassia, Chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, snakehead, turtlehead, American brooklime, brooklime, Veronica americana, brooklime, European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga, Sium suave, water parsnip, greater water parsnip, Sium latifolium, Sium sisarum, skirret, lizard's-tail, Saururus cernuus, swamp lily, water dragon.

swamp plant (noun)	calamus (noun)
a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath	the hollow spine of a feather
	any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes
	perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots
	the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally

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