| Noun | 1. | genus Calamus - distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, family Palmaceae, family Palmae, palm family, Palmaceae, Palmae - chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales calamus - any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes |
| 2. | genus Calamus - a genus of Sparidae fish genus - any of various genus of fish family Sparidae, Sparidae - porgies; scups Calamus penna, sheepshead porgy - from Florida and Bahamas to Brazil |