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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

calamus

a reed: cf. F.

calamite

(Paleon.)

A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general form of plants of the modern

Equiseta

(the Horsetail or Scouring Rush family) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having the stem more or less woody within. See

, and

See also: calamité

calamite ‎(plural calamites)

genus of extinct treelike horsetails

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