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Definitions for Sedge

[1] any rushlike or grasslike plant of the genus Carex, growing in wet places. Compare sedge family.
[2] any plant of the sedge family.
[3] siege(def 5) .
[4] any grasslike cyperaceous plant of the genus Carex, typically growing on wet ground and having rhizomes, triangular stems, and minute flowers in spikelets
[5] any other plant of the family Cyperaceae

Words related to Sedge

thicket, scrub, shrubbery, undergrowth, grove, cover, coppice, hedge, copse, dingle, underwood, brushwood, fern, gorse, bracken, spinney, chaparral, boscage

Words nearby Sedge

seddon, sedecias, sedentary, seder, sederunt, sedge, sedge family, sedge fly, sedge warbler, sedge wren, sedged

Origin of Sedge

before 900; Middle English segge, Old English secg; akin to saw1; presumably so named from its sawlike edges

Word origin for Sedge

Old English secg; related to Middle High German segge sedge, Old English sagu saw 1

Synonyms for Sedge

scrub, thicket, bracken, brushwood, chaparral, coppice, copse, cover, dingle, fern, gorse, grove, hedge, shrubbery, spinney, undergrowth, underwood, boscage