sedge

English

a sedge of species

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɛdʒ

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Etymology 1

From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”). Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher ‘reeds’.

Noun

sedge (plural sedges)

1. 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.
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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.

2. Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.

Derived terms

• sedged
• sedge fly
• sedge frog

Translations

any plant of the genus Carex

• Armenian: կնյուն (hy) (knyun)
• Danish: star (da) c
• Dutch: zegge (nl) f
• Faroese: stør f, størur m, stargras n, steyrur m
• Finnish: sara (fi)
• French: laîche (fr) f
• Galician: carrizo (gl) m
• German: Segge (de) f, Riedgras n
• Hungarian: sás (hu)
• Italian: sala (it) f, carice m
• Japanese: 菅 (ja) (すげ, suge)
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• Latin: cārex f
• Maori: toetoe, tākahikahi
• Navajo: tłʼoh dichʼíízh
• Persian: جگن (fa) (jagan)
• Polish: turzyca f
• Portuguese: carriço (pt) m
• Romanian: rogoz (ro) n
• Russian: осока (ru) f (osoka)
• Serbo-Croatian: šaš (sh) m
• Slovak: ostrica f
• Spanish: carrizo (es) m

any plant of the family Cyperaceae

• Finnish: sarakasvi (fi)
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See also

• bulrush
• reed
• sedge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Carex on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

By contraction from sedge fly.

Noun

sedge (plural sedges)

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

Etymology 3

Variant spellings.

Noun

sedge (plural sedges)

1. Obsolete spelling of siege.
2. Alternative spelling of segge
3. A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.

Anagrams

• edges