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Definition: Sedge |
SedgeNoun1. Grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sedge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Etymology: Sedge \Sedge\, noun. [from Old English expression segge, Anglo-Saxon secg; akin to Low German segge; -- probably named from its bladelike appearance, and akin to Latin secare to cut, English saw cutting instrument; compare to Ir. seisg, Welsh hesg. Compare to Hassock, Saw the instrument.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cyperaceae: Sedge family Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Cyperales Family: Cyperaceae Genera Cyperus
Eleocharis
The Family Cyperaceae, or the Sedge Family, is a monocot flowering plant family. Many of these plants superficially resemble grasses.
The water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis, is a sedge. It is called in French liseron d'eau, but is neither a liseron nor a chestnut. In Chinese it is called ma-ti, which means horsekick. Papyrus, the ancient Egyptian writing material was made out of the sedge, Cyperus papyrus.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cyperaceae."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vegetable | Bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sedge |
| English words defined with "sedge": bog plant ♦ Carex arenaria, Carex pseudocyperus, Chinese water chestnut, chufa, Cotton grass, cotton rush, creeping spike rush, Cyperaceous, Cyperus alternifolius, Cyperus esculentus, Cyperus longus, Cyperus papyrus, Cyperus rotundus, cypress sedge ♦ earth almond, Egyptian paper reed, Eleocharis dulcis, Eleocharis palustris ♦ Flagworm ♦ galangal, galingale, ground almond ♦ hardstem bulrush, hardstemmed bulrush ♦ Knife grass ♦ marsh plant, Meadow hay, Mockbird ♦ night warbler, Nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass, nutsedge ♦ paper rush, papyrus, Perigynium ♦ rush nut, rushlike ♦ sand reed, sand sedge, Scirpus acutus, Scirpus cyperinus, Scotch nightingale, sedge warbler, Sedged, sedgelike, Seg, spike rush, swamp plant ♦ Tussock grass ♦ umbrella plant, umbrella sedge ♦ water chestnut, wiesenboden, Willow lark, wool grass ♦ yellow nutgrass. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sedge": Ulva. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sedge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Sedge" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.52% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sedge": broom sedge ♦ common sedge ♦ cypress sedge ♦ Knop sedge ♦ nut sedge ♦ sand sedge ♦ sedge bird ♦ sedge family ♦ Sedge Garden ♦ sedge hen ♦ Sedge ken ♦ sedge warbler ♦ sedge wren ♦ umbrella sedge. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sedge": sedge-covered, sedge-grass, sedge-warbler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sedge | 33 |
nut sedge | 8 |
grass sedge | 5 |
plant sedge | 4 |
sedge wren | 3 |
japanese sedge | 3 |
sedge slough | 3 |
dense sedge | 2 |
pennsylvania sedge | 2 |
sedge water | 2 |
picture sedge | 2 |
blue grass sedge | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sedge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shqirë, plish. (various references) | |
Arabic | البردي (papyrus). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | крайбрежно шаварче, острица. (various references) | |
Czech | ostřice (saw-grass). (various references) | |
Danish | startoerv (carex peat, sedge peat), star (celebrity, star), sivsanger (sedge warbler), sandstar (marram matweed, sand sedge, sea sedge), nikkende star (tufted sedge), avneknippe (great fen sedge, smooth saw grass), carekstoerv (carex peat, sedge peat), dyndstar (bog sedge, water sedge), håret star (hairy sedge), kalamus (sweet calamus, sweet flag, sweet root, sweet sedge), kalmus (sweet calamus, sweet flag, sweet root, sweet sedge), almindelig star (common sedge), næbstar (beaked sedge, bottle sedge USA), tykakset star (greater pond sedge), rævestar (greater fox sedge, true fox sedge), tvebo star (dioecious sedge), knippe star (cyperus sedge). (various references) | |
Dutch | Scherpe zegge (tufted sedge), snavelzegge (beaked sedge, bottle sedge USA), slijkzegge (bog sedge), cyperzegge (cyperus sedge), galigaan (great fen sedge, smooth saw grass), Gewone zegge (common sedge), kalmoes (calamus), kalmus (sweet calamus, sweet flag, sweet root, sweet sedge), Noordse zegge (water sedge), oeverzegge (greater pond sedge), carexturf (carex peat, sedge peat), ruige zegge (hairy sedge), zeggeturf (carex peat, sedge peat), tweehuizige zegge (dioecious sedge), tweerijige zegge (brown sedge), viltige zegge (downy-fruited sedge), voszegge (greater fox sedge, true fox sedge), zandzegge (marram matweed, sand sedge, sea sedge), rietzanger (sedge warbler). (various references) | |
Farsi | سعدکوفی(گ.ش.), زنبق زرد, جگن (Junk, Wattle). (various references) | |
Finnish | sara. (various references) | |
French | laiche, carex. (various references) | |
German | Riedgras. (various references) | |
Greek | σπάρτο (rush), σπαθόχορτο, βρύο (heather, moss, sea weed), βρούλο (bulrush). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכב" (broom, cladium, common sedge, panicle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sás (bulrush). (various references) | |
Italian | carice. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 菅 (sedge-wovenhat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | す'がさ (sedge-wovenhat). (various references) | |
Korean | 사초. (various references) | |
Manx | shiast (barren, barren animal, dry, neuter, sterile). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edgesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | junça, carriço. (various references) | |
Romanian | rogoz (bulrush, carex). (various references) | |
Russian | осока (sedges). (various references) | |
Scottish | gainisg , gainisgeag. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šaš. (various references) | |
Spanish | juncia. (various references) | |
Swedish | starrgräs. (various references) | |
Turkish | sazlık (morass, reed-bed, reeds, reedy, rush-bed), saz (bulrush, instrument, Reed, rush, wattles), kamış (bulrush, cane, penis, Reed, rod, straw, wattles), hasırotu (bulrush, rush). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | осока. (various references) | |
Welsh | hesgen (rush). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Acorus calamus, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, carex, Carex acuta, Carex aquatilis Wahl., Carex arenaria L., Carex dioica L., Carex disticha Huds., Carex fusca All., Carex goodenowii, Carex gracilis, Carex hirta L., Carex intermedia Good., Carex limosa L., Carex nigra, Carex nigra Reich., Carex pseudocyperus L., Carex riparia Curt., Carex rostrata Stokes, Carex spp., Carex vulgaris, Carex vulpina, Cladium mariscoides Torr., Cladium mariscus Pohl, Cyperaceae, RM:channarel da channa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sedge": sedges. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sedge": nutsedge. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sedge": nutsedges. (additional references) | |
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"Sedge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pedge, sadge, sdece, sdee, sdeg, seage, sede, sedgy, Sedogo, seedle, seege, sege, Segei, segel, Segey, seige, seogi, seuge, Seugi, sexdigit, seyde, stedge, sudge, swedge, vedge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sedge" (pronounced se"j) |
| 2 | -e" j | allege, dredge, edge, fledge, hedge, ledge, pledge, sledge, wedge. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: edges. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-s" | |
-1 letter: dees, edge, geds, geed, gees, seed. | |
-2 letters: dee, eds, ged, gee, see, seg. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-s" | |
+1 letter: edgers, geodes, gledes, gleeds, greeds, hedges, kedges, ledges, sedges, segued, sieged, sledge, wedges. | |
+2 letters: bugseed, degames, degases, degerms, degrees, deluges, dengues, dragees, dredges, edgiest, egested, fledges, gelders, genders, geodesy, gessoed, greased, guessed, guested, hedgers, ledgers, legends, pledges, redlegs, sedgier, seeding, sledged, sledges, wedgies. | |
+3 letters: agedness, besieged, besmudge, bugseeds, degassed, degasser, degasses, deglazes, degrades, degrease, degusted, demerges, deranges, desexing, designed, designee, designer, deterges, digested, digester, disagree, diverges, dredgers, dressage, edgeless, edgeways, edgewise, edginess, eggheads, egressed, elegised, endgames, endogens, energids, feedbags, feedings, gapeseed, geodesic, gestated, gestured, goldeyes, grandees, grenades, gumweeds, gusseted, hedgiest, hogweeds, ingested, ledgiest, megadose, messaged, nutsedge, pigweeds, pledgees, pledgers, pledgets, presaged, ragweeds, redesign, redigest, reedings, regrades, rejudges, resigned, restaged, resurged, saggered, seceding, sedgiest, seedling, selvaged, selvedge, sheepdog, signeted, sleighed, speeding, squegged, svedberg, wedgiest, wergelds. | |
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