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bulrush::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bullrush, common rush, juncus effusus, soft rush |
| Type of | rush |
bulrush::noun | Spocien Dictionary
tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bullrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, typha latifolia |
| Type of | cattail |
Examples of bulrush
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Now there's only a quick stop at the hotel's pond to pull up a few bulrush stems.
From the independent.co.uk
Finally, a reader writes of the value of the common bulrush in countering bleeding.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It blends in well with the brown of the cattail and bulrush that has not yet greened up.
From the sltrib.com
Does your five-a-day come from foraged bulrush hearts and berries?
From the guardian.co.uk
Oklejanki or wyklejanki are decorated with bulrush pith or yarn.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Basketmakers have substituted with bulrush, a more rigid grass.
From the thestate.com
The bounty on offer ranges from nettles and bulrush hearts to wild samphire and, come October, mushrooms.
From the guardian.co.uk
Egrets and herons poke among islands of leathery bulrush.
From the time.com
For months She moped around Her living room in Heaven, head drooped like a bulrush, while the lines piled up.
From the online.wsj.com
- Cat's-tail: tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa
- Tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America
- Any of several wetland herbs, of the genus Scirpus, having clusters of spikelets; Any similar plant, such as papyrus
- (bulrushes) Grassy reads such as where Moses was found as a baby.
- One of several reed-like plants of the marshes which form dense clusters of flowers, either spheres of several centimetres in diameter or upright cylinders up to 40 cm long and 4 cm across.
- Represents three Heb. words: (1) gome Exodus 2:3; Isaiah 18:2; 35:7), Cyperus papyrus, is now extinct in Egypt (cf. Isaiah 19:6-7), where it was formerly regarded as the distinctive plant of the country (Strab., xvii, 15) and the Nile was styled "the papyrus-bearer" (Ovid, "Metam. ...
- (1.) In Isa 58:5 the rendering of a word which denotes "belonging to a marsh," from the nature of the soil in which it grows (Isa 18:2). It was sometimes platted into ropes (Job 41:2; A.V., "hook," R.V., "rope," lit. "cord of rushes"). (2.) In Exo 2:3, Isa 18:2 (R.V. ...
- 1. Pennisetum glaucum, an annual forage grass. 2. (see cumbungi.)
