| 单词 | sedge |
| 释义 | sedge (once / 4639 pages) n WORD FAMILY sedge: sedgelike, sedges, sedgy USAGE EXAMPLESSoft swales of sedges and a thickening tangle of twinberry and ninebark thrive under a canopy of willow and poplar. Seattle Times(Oct 21, 2016) The lake was layered with sweet flag, sedge, lilies, horehound, bulrush and buckbean. New York Times(Oct 21, 2016) The only other major signs of life have been a smattering of fellow cyclists and a sedge of cranes in a field. The Guardian(Sep 17, 2016) n grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers Hypo|Hyper Cyperus alternifolius, umbrella plant, umbrella sedge African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves Cyperus esculentus, chufa, earth almond, ground almond, rush nut, yellow nutgrassEuropean sedge having small edible nutlike tubers Cyperus longus, galangal, galingaleEuropean sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots Cyperus papyrus, Egyptian paper reed, Egyptian paper rush, paper plant, paper rush, papyrustall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass, nutsedgea widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers Carex arenaria, sand reed, sand sedgeEuropean maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States; rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla Carex pseudocyperus, cypress sedgetufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitan cotton grass, cotton rushany sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes Scirpus acutus, hardstem bulrush, hardstemmed bulrushwidely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems Scirpus cyperinus, wool grasssedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets spike rusha sedge of the genus Eleocharis Eriophorum angustifolium, common cotton grasshaving densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis, water chestnutChinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers Eleocharis acicularis, hair grass, needle rush, needle spike rush, slender spike rushfine-leaved aquatic spike rush; popular as aerator for aquariums Eleocharis palustris, creeping spike rushcylindrical-stemmed sedge bog plant, marsh plant, swamp plant a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath |
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