sedge
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Etymology tree
From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”).
Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher (“reeds”).
Noun
sedge (countable and uncountable, plural sedges)
- Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
- Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges; perennial, endogenous herbs with triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grass-like leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
- Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges; perennial, endogenous herbs with triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grass-like leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.
- Any other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
Derived terms
- acute sedge
- beaksedge
- Bicknell's sedge
- blue wood sedge
- bottle sedge
- broom sedge
- cat-tail sedge
- claspbract sedge
- common sedge
- few-flowered sedge
- fox sedge
- glaucous sedge
- Krause's sedge
- long hair sedge
- mud sedge
- Pennsylvania sedge
- plantainleaf sedge
- rare spring-sedge
- sallow sedge
- sand sedge
- sedged
- sedge-darter
- sedge fly
- sedge frog
- sedge grass
- sedgeland
- sedgelike
- sedge-skipper
- sedge warbler
- sedge wren
- silvery sedge
- slender sedge
- soft fox sedge
- star sedge
- string sedge
- true sedge
- tussock sedge
- wood sedge
Translations
any plant of the family Cyperaceae
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any plant of the genus Carex
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See also
Etymology 2
By contraction from sedge fly.
Noun
sedge (plural sedges)
- (fishing) A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.
Etymology 3
Variant spellings.
Noun
sedge (plural sedges)
References
- “sedge”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
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