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SEDGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sedge" is a kind of...):
bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sedge"):
Cyperus alternifolius; umbrella plant; umbrella sedge (African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves)
chufa; Cyperus esculentus; earth almond; ground almond; rush nut; yellow nutgrass (European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers)
Cyperus longus; galangal; galingale (European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots)
Cyperus papyrus; Egyptian paper reed; Egyptian paper rush; paper plant; paper rush; papyrus (tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times)
Cyperus rotundus; nut grass; nut sedge; nutgrass; nutsedge (a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers)
Carex arenaria; sand reed; sand sedge (European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States; rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla)
Carex pseudocyperus; cypress sedge (tufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitan)
cotton grass; cotton rush (any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes)
hardstem bulrush; hardstemmed bulrush; Scirpus acutus (widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems)
Scirpus cyperinus; wool grass (sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets)
spike rush (a sedge of the genus Eleocharis)
Holonyms ("sedge" is a member of...):
Cyperaceae; family Cyperaceae; sedge family (bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant)
Derivation:
sedgy (covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants))
