sea-rushn.
1. A species of Juncus (see rush n.1 2b). Also †sea-rush grass.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > rush and related plants
rusheOE
sharp rushc1050
seave14..
junk?a1425
candle-rushc1440
rush1562
sea-rush1562
camel's-straw1578
mat-rush1578
sprot1595
frog grass1597
matweed1597
rush grass1597
sprata1600
spart1614
bumble1633
toad-grass1640
moss-rush1670
thresha1689
spreta1700
bog rush1760
black grassa1763
goose-corn1762
toad-rush1776
wood-rush1776
stool-bent1777
scrub-grass1811
beak-rush1830
salt-weed1836
wiwi1840
thread rush1861
three-leaved rush1861
kill-cow1898
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 144v Sparta..is a kind of sea bente or sea rishe.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 30 The flowers of this Sea Rush grasse are faire and beautifull.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 160 They make them certaine socks of sea-rushes.
1713 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1898) IV. 69 Our Saviour himself was to be crown'd with a Crown of Thorns made of ye same sea Rushes.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Sea-Rush, Sea-Rush-Grass, or Spanish Trefoil, a Plant whose Seed is very small, and black.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 346 Juncus acutus,..Pricking large Sea-rush. Sand Hills on the sea coast of Merionethshire. Ray.
1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 116 The pungent sea-rush grew in long lines along the shore.
2. = sea-rod n. 1.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > suborder Pennatulacea > member of family Virgulariidae
sea-rod1750
sea-rush1850
1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side iv. 262 The Virgularia, which the fishermen call Sea-rush.
1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 33 Sea-rush (Virgularia mirabilis), a spine two feet long, with hundreds of rosy flowerets arranged in half-rings round it from end to end.
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