English > sedge: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers. |
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| Member of | Cyperaceae, family Cyperaceae, sedge family | bulrush |
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| Narrower | chufa, yellow nutgrass, earth almond, ground almond, rush nut, Cyperus esculentus | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
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| cotton grass, cotton rush | Any sedge of the genus Eriophorum |
| cypress sedge, Carex pseudocyperus | tufted sedge of temperate regions |
| galingale, galangal, Cyperus longus | European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots |
| hardstem bulrush, hardstemmed bulrush, Scirpus acutus | widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems |
| nutgrass, nut grass, nutsedge, nut sedge, Cyperus rotundus | A widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
| papyrus, Egyptian paper reed, Egyptian paper rush, paper rush, paper plant, Cyperus papyrus | tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times |
| sand sedge, sand reed, Carex arenaria | European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States |
| spike rush | A sedge of the genus Eleocharis |
| umbrella plant, umbrella sedge, Cyperus alternifolius | African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves |
| wool grass, Scirpus cyperinus | sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets |
| Broader | marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant | A semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land |
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| Spanish | carrizo, juncia, junco |
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| Catalan | jonc |
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| Adjectives | sedgy | covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants) |
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