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sedge

sɛʤ
WordNet
  1. (n) sedge
    grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Sedge
    (Zoöl) A flock of herons.
  2. Sedge
    (Bot) Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous, innutritious herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) sedge
    A plant of the genus Carex, an extensive genus of grass-like cyperaceous plants. The name is thence extended, especially in the plural, to the order Cyperaceæ, the sedge family. In popular use it is loosely comprehensive of numerous flaglike, rush-like, or grassy plants growing in wet places. See Carex and Cyperaceæ.
  2. (n) sedge
    A flock of herons or bitterns, sometimes of cranes.
  3. (n) sedge
    Synonyms Covey, etc. See flock.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Sedge
    sej a kind of flag or coarse grass growing in swamps and rivers
  2. (n) Sedge
    sej a flock of herons, bitterns, or cranes.
Quotations
John Greenleaf Whittier
On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!
John Greenleaf Whittier
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. segge, AS. secg,; akin to LG. segge,; -- probably named from its bladelike appearance, and akin to L. secare, to cut, E. saw, a cutting instrument; cf. Ir. seisg, W. hesg,. Cf. Hassock Saw the instrument

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A variant of siege.

Usage in the news

Photo by Sepp Jannotta, Homer News A grizzly sow and her two yearling cubs eye the movements of the other bears in a sedge flat in Swikshak Bay on the Katmai coast. homernews.com

Nut sedge a gardener's plague. dallasnews.com

Drought-Tough Ornamental Grasses and Sedges. klru.org

Blue sedge ( Carex glauca ). klru.org

Cherokee sedge ( Carex cherokeensis ). klru.org

Japanese sedge , left, provides a bright accent in the drought-tolerant garden. sacbee.com

The Rose Hill Cemetery in Meridian is not only the final resting place of the renowned Gypsy Queen, it is also the first site in North America where a particular type of sedge from Eurasia was found. msbusiness.com

Coast Guard to launch replacement for Sedge by Joel Gay Staff Writer. homernews.com

Spit memorial to honor Sedge and othe '180s'. homernews.com

Though the Sedge will leave Homer after being decommissioned in November, it and other buoy tenders in the 180-foot Balsam class will be remembered in a memorial to be built on the Homer Spit. homernews.com

Next to it, the telltale humps of hummock sedge in a wet meadow. jsonline.com

"We've got grass here, and sedge," he says. opb.org

If there's a wetland forming where your garden used to be, consider the palm sedge ( Carex muskingumensis ). gardeningclub.com

The Polly Hill Arboretum is hosting a talk on grasses, sedges and rushes led by PHA research associate Melissa Cullina. mvgazette.com

The preserve is a major site for the endangered variable sedge. remindernewspapers.com

Usage in literature

Along its banks grew giant sedge, stiff and grey with frost like meal. "The Three Mulla-mulgars" by Walter De La Mare

Then enter Nymphs, "Naiads of the winding brooks with sedg'd crowns," and Sun burnt Reapers, "with rye-straw hats. "How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest" by Rudyard Kipling

She scarcely breathed her consent, and the canoe tore the growing sedge like satin as it bumped against the slope of the bank. "Plashers Mead" by Compton Mackenzie

Mr. Bushnell filled his hat with water, and sprinkled the pale face in the sedge. "The Only Woman in the Town" by Sarah J. Prichard

Without waiting to consider how many of the enemy might be hiding in the sedge, Ottley took his twenty men splashing through the river. "The Unveiling of Lhasa" by Edmund Candler

Sedge, a kind of coarse grass. "A Reading Book in Irish History" by P. W. Joyce

The clean smell of the wet salt sedge came freshly into the thicket. "The Forge in the Forest" by Charles G. D. Roberts

And down by the brook there, I know of a sedge-bird's nest; we'll go and look at it coming back. "Tom Brown at Rugby" by Thomas Hughes

The great pink flamingo roused from his resting-place among the sedges when the noise began. "Not Quite Eighteen" by Susan Coolidge

The boat began slowly to break through the reeds and sedges, and to drift up the stream. "The Undying Past" by Hermann Sudermann

Usage in poetry
Do the little sedges
Still shake with delight,
And whisper together
All through the night?
``Past glowing heather, silvery sedge,
You hurry on, and on,
Rush at the rock, then leap the ledge,
All eager to be gone.
To the brink of ancient Nilus;
Where among the flags and sedge,
They beheld the floating wonder,
Cradled by the rivers edge.
He turned the ox to the sedges;
He took it and held the yoke up,
Then he flung it far back in the waters
Of the dark mountain-cup;
Where sings the blackbird in the dawn,
And where the blue lake-water stirs,
And where the slender wind-blown sedge
Shakes all its silver spurs.
I know how softly bright,
Steep'd in that tender light,
The water-lilies tremble there ev'n now;
Go to the pure stream's edge,
And from its whisp'ring sedge,
Bring me those flowers to cool my fever'd brow!