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Showing words for BULRUSH using the English dictionary
7 Letter Words for Bulrush
bulrush
5 Letter Words for Bulrush
blurs, blush, brush, buhls, buhrs, burls, hurls, rubus, shlub, shrub, slurb
4 Letter Words for Bulrush
blur, buhl, buhr, burh, burl, burs, bush, hubs, hulu, hurl, lurs, lush, rhus, rubs, rush, shul, slub, slur, sulu, ulus, urbs, urus
3 Letter Words for Bulrush
bls, brl, bsh, bul, bur, bus, hrs, hub, lbs, lhb, lub, lur, rhb, rub, shr, sub, sur, uhs, ulu, urb, urs, ush, usu
Definitions for Bulrush
[1] (in Biblical use) the papyrus, Cyperus papyrus.
[2] any of various rushes of the genera Scirpus and Typha.
[3] a grasslike cyperaceous marsh plant, Scirpus lacustris , used for making mats, chair seats, etc
[4] a popular name for reed mace (def. 1)
[5] a biblical word for papyrus (def. 1)
Words nearby Bulrush
bully-off, bullyboy, bullycide, bullyrag, bulnbuln, bulrush, bultmann, bulwark, bulwer, bulwer-lytton, bum
Origin of Bulrush
1400–50; late Middle English bulrish papyrus, probably bull1 + rish rush2
Word origin for Bulrush
C15 bulrish, bul- perhaps from bull 1 + rish rush ², referring to the largeness of the plant; sense 2 derived from the famous painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912), Dutch-born English painter, of the finding of the infant Moses in the "bulrushes" — actually reed mace