sedge
/sɛd͡ʒ/
sedge noun: any plant of the family Cyperaceae. Also the obsolete spelling of siege.
Noun (1)
sedge (countable and uncountable, plural sedges)
- Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
- Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges; perennial herbs with triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grass-like leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.
- 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...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
- Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges; perennial herbs with triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grass-like leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.
- Any of various other plants resembling true sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
Noun (2)
sedge (plural sedges)
- A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.
Noun (3)
sedge (plural sedges)
- A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.
Also used as
sedge is also the obsolete spelling of siege.
sedge meaning in Persian
sedge in Persian
- any plant of the genus Carex
- جگن jagan
Forms of sedge
| plural | sedges |
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Origin of sedge
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”).
By contraction from sedge fly.
Variant spellings.
Words formed from sedge
- acute sedge
- beaksedge
- Bicknell's sedge
- blue wood sedge
- bottle sedge
- broom sedge
- broomsedge
- cat-tail sedge
- claspbract sedge
- common sedge
- creeping sedge
- few-flowered sedge
- flatsedge
- fox sedge
- glaucous sedge
- goosegrass sedge
- hairsedge
- Krause's sedge
- long hair sedge
- mud sedge
- nutsedge
- Pennsylvania sedge
- plantainleaf sedge
- rare spring-sedge
- sallow sedge
- sand sedge
- Sedgebrook
- sedged
- sedge-darter
- sedge fly
- sedge frog
- sedge grass
- sedge hat
- sedgeland
- sedgelike
- sedge-skipper
- sedge warbler
- sedge wren
- sedgy
- silvery sedge
- slender sedge
- soft fox sedge
- star sedge
- string sedge
- sword sedge
- tussock sedge
- wood sedge
- woolsedge
Phrases with sedge
Words that rhyme with sedge
Questions about sedge
- What does sedge mean?
- Sedge means any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
- What is sedge in Persian?
- Sedge in Persian is جگن (jagan). See Sedge meaning in Persian.
- What part of speech is sedge?
- Sedge is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sedge?
- Sedge is pronounced /sɛd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of sedge?
- The plural of sedge is sedges.
Words near sedge in the dictionary
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