nutsedge
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- noun
- /ˈnʌtˌsɛdʒ/
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sedaña
- In wet areas of the garden, nutsedge can thrive, making it difficult for other plants to grow.
- yellow nutsedge
Examples
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Farmers often struggle to control nutsedge in their fields because it spreads quickly.
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The runners also anchor the fabric, so pulling it up with nutsedge all grown through it is a terrible job.
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Nutsedge grows right through it, under it, over it, everywhere.
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Nutsedge has long runners that sprout new plants every so often, so it grows under the fabric and up into the beds themselves.
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Cardboard topped with mulch works much better, and even if the nutsedge eventually comes back, I can get to it easier than trying to rip up the landscape fabric.
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The chef used the nutsedge tubers in a unique recipe that highlighted their nutty flavor.
Synonyms
A grass-like plant with small edible nutlike roots often seen as a weed
A grass-like plant with small round edible underground tubers that often grows as a weed
A grasslike plant with small edible parts under the ground that often grows as a weed
A common weed that has small edible tubers like tiny potatoes underground
A small European plant with edible tubers that look like nuts
A small edible root like a tiny nut that people eat or use in food
A plant with small edible tubers you can dig up and eat
A plant that grows near water and has nut-like parts you can eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nutsedge is simply nut + sedge, a name for a grass-like plant whose small underground tubers look like little 'nuts'. So the word today refers to a tough sedge that often has edible, nutlike underground parts.