rushlike

1 9.1

Looks like a plant with tall thin stems and narrow leaves near water

adjective

Specialized

: similar a juncos

The plant had tall, slender, rushlike stems growing along the water's edge.

Examples

Some grasses have rushlike leaves that are difficult to distinguish from true rushes.
Her design featured a rushlike texture that gave the basket a natural appearance.
The garden was filled with rushlike plants.
These rushlike grasses thrive in wet soil.
The tall, rushlike plants swayed gently in the breeze near the pond.
The artist used a rushlike pattern to create a sense of movement in the painting.
In the wetland, we found several rushlike species that thrived in the damp conditions.

Synonyms

rushy

vsrushlike

1 8.7

Land covered with long, thin plants that grow in wet ground

focuses on resemblance in appearance or structure rather than abundance

sedgelike

vsrushlike

9.5

Like a grass plant with long thin leaves that grow in wet places

is broader, meaning similar to various marsh grasses in form or nature

Surface Forms

rushlike positive

Morphology

rushlike = rush (transparent) = rush + like

The productive adjectival suffix '-like' straightforwardly means 'resembling', so 'rushlike' clearly means 'resembling a rush'.

Etymology

The word rushlike comes from the plant word rush, a tall, thin plant often found by water, and the ending -like, which means 'similar to'. So rushlike means 'similar to a rush' in look or structure, like the long, slender stems you might see used in baskets by the shore.