sedge — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.

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2. Any plant of the family Cyperaceae. Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges; perennial herbs with triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grass-like leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib.

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   But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

3. Any of various other plants resembling true sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.

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Noun

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

Noun

1. A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.

Noun

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

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