sedge
/sɛdʒ
/noun
A grass-like plant with triangular stems and inconspicuous flowers, growing typically in wet ground. Sedges are widely distributed throughout temperate and cold regions.
- Family Cyperaceae: Carex and other genera.
- Mallards are omnivorous, eating seeds, stems, and roots from a variety of aquatic plants, especially sedges, grasses, pondweeds, and smartweeds.
- Also present are bog asphodel, deer grass and sedges such as slender sedge and bog sedge.
Derivatives
sedgy
Origin
Old English secg, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin secare 'to cut'.