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OXFORD DICTIONARY
ROGET THESAURUS

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sedge has 1 sense

sedge(n = noun.plant) - grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers;

has particulars: cyperus alternifolius, umbrella plant, umbrella sedge, chufa, cyperus esculentus, earth almond, ground almond, rush nut, yellow nutgrass, cyperus longus, galangal, galingale, cyperus papyrus, egyptian paper reed, egyptian paper rush, paper plant, paper rush, papyrus, cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass, nutsedge, carex arenaria, sand reed, sand sedge, carex pseudocyperus, cypress sedge, cotton grass, cotton rush, hardstem bulrush, hardstemmed bulrush, scirpus acutus, scirpus cyperinus, wool grass, spike rush

is a kind of bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant

Derived form adjective sedgy₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sedge, n. [OE. segge, AS. secg; akin to LG. segge; -- probably named from its bladelike appearance, and akin to L. secare to cut, E. saw a cutting instrument; cf. Ir. seisg, W. hesg. Cf. Hassock, Saw the instrument.].

Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous, innutritious herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species. [1913 Webster]
" The name is sometimes given to any other plant of the order Cyperaceæ, which includes Carex, Cyperus, Scirpus, and many other genera of rushlike plants." [1913 Webster]
A flock of herons. [1913 Webster]

Sedge hen (Zoöl.), the clapper rail. See under 5th Rail. -- Sedge warbler (Zoöl.), a small European singing bird (Acrocephalus phragmitis). It often builds its nest among reeds; -- called also sedge bird, sedge wren, night warbler, and Scotch nightingale.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sedge, n.
1 any grasslike plant of the genus Carex with triangular stems, usu. growing in wet areas.
2 an expanse of this plant.

Idiom

sedge-warbler (or -wren) a small warbler, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, that breeds in sedge.

Derivative

sedgy adj.

Etymology

OE secg f. Gmc

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ROGET THESAURUS

sedge

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.