sedge : Idioms & Phrases

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broom sedge

  • noun tall tufted grass of southeastern United States
    Andropogon virginicus.
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cypress sedge

  • noun tufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitan
    Carex pseudocyperus.
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Knop sedge

  • (Bot.), the bur reed (Sparganium); so called from its globular clusters of seed vessels.
Webster 1913

nut sedge

  • noun a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
    nut grass; nutgrass; Cyperus rotundus; nutsedge.
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sand sedge

  • noun European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States; rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla
    sand reed; Carex arenaria.
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sedge bird

  • noun small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa
    Acrocephalus schoenobaenus; reedbird; sedge bird; sedge warbler.
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sedge family

  • noun bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant
    family Cyperaceae; Cyperaceae.
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Sedge ken

  • (Zoöl.), the clapper rail. See under 5th Rail.
Webster 1913

Sedge warbler

  • noun small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa
    Acrocephalus schoenobaenus; reedbird; sedge bird; sedge warbler.
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  • (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.
Webster 1913

sedge wren

  • noun small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows
    short-billed marsh wren; Cistothorus platensis.
  • noun small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa
    Acrocephalus schoenobaenus; reedbird; sedge bird; sedge warbler.
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umbrella sedge

  • noun African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
    umbrella plant; Cyperus alternifolius.
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