🏃 To hurry 💨 Sudden movement ⏩ To make hurry ⚡ Strong feeling 🏈 To run forward 🏈 A running play ⚠️ Done quickly 🌾 A wetland plant

rush

2 8.5

A plant like grass that grows in wet places

noun
/rʌʃ/

: junco

We laid down a beautiful mat made of rush fibers along the riverbank for our picnic.
cane rush

We made a list of iconic infants, Moses and the rushes Manger Jesus.

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Examples

Then they spread out their rush mats that Little Twig's mother had woven for them.

Fiction book (1998)
Through the low rush of the water, he could just make out the sound of her breathing.

Fiction book (1995)
Three-fourths of the rush family, including most species in the United States, belong to the genus Juncus.

Academic text (1992)
More than 144,000 individual plants representing 13 species were planted, including soft rush, common cattail, reed canary grass, and herstem bulrush.

Academic text (1996)
The wetland was filled with various plants, including rush, which thrived in the moist soil.
In the marshy area, the tall rush plants swayed gently in the breeze.

Synonyms

soft rush

vsrush

1 8.9

A tall grass-like plant with soft upright stems that grows in wet places

is the broader grasslike wet plant with cylindrical often hollow stems

common rush

vsrush

7.8

A tall plant with many soft, upright stems that grows at the edges of ponds and marshes

is the general grasslike wet plant with cylindrical often hollow stems

slender rush

vsrush

Specialized

8.1

A plant with thin stems that grows in clumps in wet places like marshes

is the wider grasslike wet plant with thicker cylindrical stems

jointed rush

vsrush

Australian

8.4

A tall Australian plant that grows in wet places and has hollow stems in separate sections

is the general wet grasslike plant without prominent stem joints

rush-grass

vsrush

9.9

A grass with thin, stiff stems and flower groups covered by leaves that grows in wet ground

is the broader grasslike wet plant focused on cylindrical hollow stems

Idioms

to rush to the crapper

Offensive

9.9

To go quickly to the toilet because you have to pee or poo

Compounds

rush hour

56 2.3

Times at the start and end of the work day when traffic is heavy

gold rush

19 3.0

A time when many people go quickly to a place to look for gold

gold rush

8 3.6

A sudden time when many people start a new business to try to get rich

bum's rush

Archaic

3 9.5

A quick, rude way to make someone leave

rush of energy

1 4.1

A sudden strong feeling that makes you active and excited

scouring rush

Specialized

1 9.9

A plant with rough, jointed stems that people once used to clean pots

spike rush

Specialized

1 8.9

A thin grass-like plant that grows in wet places like marshes

rush grass

Specialized

1 8.1

A plant with thin tough stems that grows in wet places like marshes

needle rush

1 8.7

A water plant with thin leaves that adds oxygen to aquarium water

rush candle

Archaic

1 9.9

A candle that uses a plant stem as the wick and animal fat to make light

rush rose

1 9.9

A woody plant from the southeastern United States that has yellow flowers

toad rush

1 9.9

A small grass-like plant that grows in wet, low ground

soft rush

1 8.9

A tall grass-like plant with soft upright stems that grows in wet places

common rush

7.8

A tall plant with many soft, upright stems that grows at the edges of ponds and marshes

cotton rush

Specialized

9.3

A plant that grows in bogs with white fluffy flower heads

creeping spike rush

8.8

A grass-like wetland plant with thin round stems that spreads along the ground

Egyptian paper rush

9.9

A tall marsh plant people use to make papyrus

hard rush

8.8

A tall wild plant with stiff round stems that grows in wet places

jointed rush

Australian

8.4

A tall Australian plant that grows in wet places and has hollow stems in separate sections

needle spike rush

9.1

A water plant with thin leaves used in aquariums to add oxygen

rush nut

Archaic

9.9

A plant that grows near water and has nut-like parts you can eat

rush aster

Specialized

9.1

A wildflower with narrow leaves and pale violet or white flowers that grows in wetlands in North America

rush family

Specialized

6.1

A family of grass-like plants with round stems that grow in wet places

rush-grass

9.9

A grass with thin, stiff stems and flower groups covered by leaves that grows in wet ground

paper rush

Archaic

9.9

A tall marsh plant by the Nile whose stems are used to make paper

slender rush

Specialized

8.1

A plant with thin stems that grows in clumps in wet places like marshes

slender spike rush

Specialized

9.0

A water plant with thin leaves kept in aquariums to give oxygen to the water

variegated scouring rush

9.9

A plant with hollow striped stems used to scrub pots

How Tall

giant reed

1 5.3

reed

7 1.9

cane

46 3.2

rush

2 8.5

sedge

4 9.0

grass

588 1.0

Surface Forms

rush singular

rushes plural

Etymology

Rush for the plant is an old name for a reed-like grass that grows in wet places and was used to weave 'mats', so that wet, reed-like plant is still called a rush.