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sedge::noun | Spocien Dictionary

sedge
noun
/sɛdʒ/
grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
Type Words
Type of swamp plant, bog plant, marsh plant
Has types chufa, cotton grass, cotton rush, cyperus alternifolius, cyperus esculentus, cyperus longus, cyperus papyrus, cyperus rotundus, cypress sedge, earth almond, egyptian paper reed, egyptian paper rush, galangal, galingale, ground almond, hardstem bulrush, hardstemmed bulrush, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass, nutsedge, paper plant, paper rush, papyrus, rush nut, sand reed, sand sedge, scirpus acutus, scirpus cyperinus, yellow nutgrass, carex arenaria, carex pseudocyperus, umbrella plant, umbrella sedge, wool grass, spike rush
Derivation sedgy

Examples of sedge

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The Darwinian Gardener considers globe sedge positively decorative by comparison.
From the news-journalonline.com
With the lime green color soaring in popularity, this sedge could top the charts.
From the newsobserver.com
This sedge, rising 10 inches tall and much wider, is evergreen in the Piedmont.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Besides catching bugs, chickens go after weeds, particularly notorious nut sedge.
From the sacbee.com
Among birds are snipe, curlew, redshank, heron, sedge warbler and kingfisher.
From the independent.co.uk
One that has done incredibly well in our trials is the orange sedge Carex testacea.
From the newsobserver.com
A beautiful window box can be created with Obsidian coral bells and Evergold sedge.
From the dailyherald.com
They provided access to individual plots of sedge as well as being boundary markers.
From the edp24.co.uk
Sedge wrens used to winter-over at this location but now they occur only in migration.
From the charlotteobserver.com
More examples
  • Grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
  • (Sedges) Cyperaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses or rushes. The family is large, with some 5,500 species described in about 109 genera (Govaerts et al., 2007). ...
  • Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species
  • (sedges) Plants of the family Cyperacae that resemble grasses, but have solid stems
  • (sedges) grasses of either the Cyperaceae or Restionaceae genus: coarse, rush-like or flag-like plants growing in wet places. Sedges are often associated with permanently waterlogged to periodically wet and damp areas, mostly on sands or saline or acid soils.
  • (sedges) nbsp &nbsp &nbsp Plants of the genus Carex, which includes over 1,500 species; sedges look similar to grasses.
  • A plant of the family Apiaceae, Cyperaceae
  • Hebrew suph (D.V., Exodus 2:3), a generic name for rush. See Bulrush.
  • Grasslike growths, usually in tufts or clumps, near marshes or swamps (adj.- sedgy)
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