English > spike rush: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | A sedge of the genus Eleocharis. |
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Member of | Eleocharis, genus Eleocharis | sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths |
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Narrower | creeping spike rush, Eleocharis palustris | cylindrical-stemmed sedge |
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needle spike rush, needle rush, slender spike rush, hair grass, Eleocharis acicularis | fine-leaved aquatic spike rush |
water chestnut, Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis | Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers |
Broader | sedge | grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers |
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Spanish | castaña de agua |
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