κάλαμος
Alt. κ^άλα^μος, ὁ,
I. "a reed", larger than the δόναξ, Lat. arundo, being used for thatching houses or even for making the walls, Hdt.; for making mats or crates, id=Hdt., Thuc.
II. "anything made of reed or cane":
1. "a reed-pipe, flute", Pind., Eur.
2. "a fishing-rod", Theocr.
3. "an arrow", Hor.
III. collectively, of plants, which are neither bush (ὕλη), nor tree (δένδρον), Xen.
2. "a mat of reeds", Plat.
IV. = καλάμη, "the stalk" of wheat, Xen.