sedge
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- noun
- /sɛdʒ/
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- The moose stepped closer, allowing her to pick up some details through the sedges.
- sedge grass
- sedges and rushes
You get inside the sedge row, you make all your your camouflage in there with chick wiring.
- You get inside the sedge row, you make all your your camouflage in there with chick wiring.
- Now, this is the first year that I'm going to be working with sedge soil.
Examples
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The leaves of sedges are normally flat and arranged in three distinct rows on the stem.
Academic text (1992) -
There are only tussocks, sedge, and the occasional willow, beaten low by a wind that hammers the landscape.
Academic text (2008) -
The sedge has withered from the lake and no birds sing.
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The large valley was lush with sedges and wildflowers.
Academic text (2001) -
The grasses, sedges, and wildflowers in the river swamp are equally diverse.
Academic text (1998) -
The 4,000 species of sedges and 400 of rushes found in the world are exploited for numerous purposes.
Academic text (1992) -
At least twelve kinds of wetland sedges grow in the bog, along with a few grasses and rushes.
Academic text (1993) -
Grasses and sedges are also wind-pollinated and have similarly drab flowers, usually greenish or brownish.
Academic text (1992) -
Large tussocks, or clumps, of reed canarygrass and a sedge (Carex aquatilis) are prominent where the water is deepest.
Academic text (1992) -
The large valley was lush with sedge and wildflowers.
Compounds
- US
A tall grass that grows in many clumps in old fields in the southeastern United States
A small clump of grass-like plants with thin leaves that grow in wet ground and look like tiny green trees
A grass-like plant with small round edible underground tubers that often grows as a weed
- UK
A grass-like plant that grows in sandy places like coastal dunes and helps hold the sand
- South African
A water plant from Africa with a top group of thin leaves that spread like an umbrella
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Etymology
The word sedge comes from an old English word secg. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine its stiff, blade-like stems: secg was linked with the idea 'sword', so sedge is a sharp, grasslike plant that grows in wet ground.