reedmace
- noun
- /ˈriːdˌmeɪs/
- UK
:
carrizo
- The gardener used reedmace leaves to create a beautiful mat for the patio.
Examples
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In the wetlands, reedmace grows tall and provides shelter for various birds.
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The village renovated their chairs with woven seats made from reedmace leaves.
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Stems of reedmace were poked in the ground all around the sand.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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8.5
A tall marsh plant with a brown sausage-shaped seed head and long flat leaves used for making mats and seats
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7.1
A tall plant with long soft stems that grows in wet places like marshes or riverbanks
A tall marsh plant with long flat leaves and long brown seed heads used for weaving mats and chair seats
A tall marsh plant with long flat leaves and a brown seed head that releases fluffy down
A tall plant that grows in wet places with round seed heads that burst and long leaves used for weaving
A tall plant that grows in wet places with long leaves and brown seed heads used to make mats
A tall water plant with narrow leaves and a long brown flower spike that grows in wetlands
Compounds
A tall water plant with narrow leaves and a long brown flower spike that grows in wetlands
How Tall
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reedmace combines reed and mace; the reed is the tall wet plant and mace here means a heavy 'club', because the plant's long brown seed head looks like a small club on a stem. So reedmace is the name for that tall marsh plant with a long, brown, cylindrical seed head.