sweet flag
sweet flag noun: a perennial wetland plant, Acorus calamus, with an aromatic medicinal root, formerly used to strew floors.
Noun
sweet flag (plural sweet flags)
- A perennial wetland plant, Acorus calamus, with an aromatic medicinal root, formerly used to strew floors.
- Synonyms:
- calamus, muskrat root, sway
sweet flag meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Odia and Sanskrit
sweet flag in Tamil
- வசம்பு
sweet flag in Malayalam
- Acorus calamus
- വയമ്പ് vayampŭ
sweet flag in Odia
- sweet flag, Acorus calamus
- ବଲ୍ଲରି ballari
sweet flag in Sanskrit
- sweet flag, Acorus calamus
- वचा vacā
More languagesFewer languages
- sweet flag in Tagalog
- kalamo
- sweet flag in Arabic
- وَجّ wajj, ذَرِيرَة ḏarīra
- sweet flag in Indonesian
- jerangau
- sweet flag in Persian
- وج vaj, اگیر agir, فرژ farež
- sweet flag in Thai
- ว่านน้ำ wâan-náam
Synonyms of sweet flag
Forms of sweet flag
| plural | sweet flags |
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Questions about sweet flag
- What does sweet flag mean?
- Sweet flag means a perennial wetland plant, Acorus calamus, with an aromatic medicinal root, formerly used to strew floors.
- What is sweet flag in Tamil?
- Sweet flag in Tamil is வசம்பு. See Sweet flag meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sweet flag?
- Sweet flag is a noun.
- What is the plural of sweet flag?
- The plural of sweet flag is sweet flags.
Words near sweet flag in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweet flag (page history and authors); sweet flag (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ବଲ୍ଲରି (Odia) (page history and authors); वचा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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