Calamite
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A fossil plant of the coal formation, having the general formof plants of the modern Equiseta (the Horsetail or Scouring Rushfamily) but sometimes attaining the height of trees, and having thestem more or less woody within. See Acrogen, and Asterophyllite.
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Calamite was briefly, and infrequently, used as a euphemism for homosexuality early in the 20th Century. It referred to a group of Walt Whitman's poems that celebrated love between men, the Calamus cluster.
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