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Sedge has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers

2

Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges, perennial, endogenous 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.

3

A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.

4

Obsolete spelling of siege

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
marsh plant
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
umbrella plant chufa galingale papyrus nutgrass sand sedge cypress sedge cotton grass hardstem bulrush wool grass spike rush
Rhyming Words
edge budge vedge lodge dodge ledge wedge judge nudge fidge midge wodge fedge pudge hudge widge rodge gedge jedge ridge
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