Sweet Flag Definition

noun
A perennial marsh plant (Acorus calamus) of the arum family, with sword-shaped leaves, small, green flowers, and a sweet-scented rhizome.
Webster's New World
A similar plant (Acorus americanus) native to North America.
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Noun

Singular:
sweet flag
Plural:
sweet-flags

Sweet Flag Sentence Examples

  • The leaves, which show great variety in size and form, are generally broad and net-veined, but in sweet-flag (Acorus Calamus) are long and narrow with parallel veins.

  • The sweet-flag Acorus Calamus, which occurs apparently wild in England in ditches, ponds, &c., is supposed to have been introduced.

  • In the ditches and pools common yellow and white water-lilies are seen, as well as water-soldier (Stratiotes aloides), great and lesser reed-mace, sweet flag and bur-reed.

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