Sedge is a plant that looks like grass and grows in wet ground.
sedge in British English
(sɛdʒ)
noun
1.
any grasslike cyperaceous plant of the genus Carex, typically growing on wet ground and having rhizomes, triangular stems, and minute flowers in spikelets
2.
any other plant of the family Cyperaceae
Derived forms
sedgy (ˈsedgy)
adjective
Word origin
Old English secg; related to Middle High German segge sedge, Old English sagusaw1
sedge in American English
(sɛdʒ)
noun
1.
any of the plants of the sedge family often found on wet ground or in water, havingusually triangular, solid stems, three rows of narrow, pointed leaves, and minute flowers borne in spikelets
adjective
2.
designating a family (Cyperaceae, order Cyperales) of grasslike, monocotyledonous plants, includingpapyrus
Derived forms
sedgy (ˈsedgy)
adjectiveWord forms: ˈsedgier or ˈsedgiest
Word origin
ME segge < OE secg, akin to sagu, saw1: from the shape of the leaves
Examples of 'sedge' in a sentence
sedge
The dirt was packed up as shiny as a government road in a poor county; bitterweed and sedge clogged the ditch.
McCorquodale, Robin DANSVILLE (1995)
She kept to its southern edge, and took a whole night to traverse it, as it endlessly lapped in black oily silk waves, into sedge and swamp.
Gregory Maguire WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST (1995)
In other languages
sedge
British English: sedge NOUN
Sedge is a plant that looks like grass and grows in wet ground.
American English: sedge
Brazilian Portuguese: junça
Chinese: 薹
European Spanish: junco
French: carex
German: Riedgras
Italian: carice
Japanese: ズケ
Korean: 젖은 땅에서 자라는 사초과의 식물
European Portuguese: junça
Latin American Spanish: junco
All related terms of 'sedge'
sedge fly
an angler's name for various caddis flies, notably the grey sedge , the murragh , and the cinnamon sedge
grey sedge
an angler's name for a greyish caddis fly, Odontocerum albicorne, that frequents running water, in which its larvae make cases from grains of sand
cotton sedge
any of various N temperate and arctic grasslike bog plants of the cyperaceous genus Eriophorum , whose clusters of long silky hairs resemble cotton tufts
sedge family
the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths , spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract , and a dry, flattened , convex fruit, and including the bulrush , chufa, cotton grass , papyrus , and umbrella plant
sedge warbler
a European songbird , Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes : family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers , etc)
cinnamon sedge
an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water