English Explanatory Dictionary

sedge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
  2. 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.
  3. Any of various other plants resembling true sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
noun
  1. A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.
noun
  1. Obsolete spelling of siege.
  2. A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.

Pronunciation

/sɛd͡ʒ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-sedge.wav

Word forms

sedge sedges

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *sagjaz Proto-West Germanic *sagi Old English seċġ Middle English segge English sedge From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”). Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher (“reeds”).

Related words

bulrush reed Carex

Derived words

acute sedge beaksedge Bicknell's sedge blue wood sedge bottle sedge broom sedge broomsedge cat-tail sedge claspbract sedge common sedge creeping sedge few-flowered sedge flatsedge fox sedge glaucous sedge goosegrass sedge hairsedge Krause's sedge long hair sedge mud sedge nutsedge Pennsylvania sedge plantainleaf sedge rare spring-sedge sallow sedge sand sedge Sedgebrook sedged sedge-darter sedge fly sedge frog sedge grass sedge hat sedgeland sedgelike sedge-skipper sedge warbler sedge wren sedgy silvery sedge slender sedge soft fox sedge star sedge string sedge tussock sedge wood sedge woolsedge

Translations

Czech: šáchorovitá rostlina Finnish: sarakasvi Irish: cíb Limburgish: bies Malagasy: zorozoro Malagasy: zozoro Polish: cibora Scottish Gaelic: stàrr Swedish: halvgräs Translingual: Cyperaceae
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