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Webster 1913 Edition

Bulrush

Bul′rushˊ

(bụl′rŭshˊ)
,
Noun.
[OE.
bulrysche
,
bolroysche
; of uncertain origin, perh. fr.
bole
stem +
rush
.]
(Bot.)
A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.
☞ The name
bulrush
is applied in England especially to the cat-tail (
Typha latifolia
and
Typha angustifolia
) and to the lake club-rush (
Scirpus lacustris
); in America, to the
Juncus effusus
, and also to species of
Scirpus
or club-rush.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bulrush

BUL'RUSH

,
Noun.
[bole, or boll, and rush.] A large kind of rush, growing in wet land or water, and without knots, says Johnson, but Dryden calls it, the knotty bulrush. It is not a technical word.

Definition 2024

bulrush

bulrush

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Bulrushes

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bulrush ‎(plural bulrushes)

  1. Any of several wetland plants, mostly in the family Cyperaceae (the sedges):
    1. (Americas) Sedges in the genera Bolboschoenus or Schoenoplectus (formerly considered Scirpus), having clusters of spikelets.
    2. (Britain) Cattails or reedmace, in the genus Typha
    3. (biblical) A plant referred to in the story of Moses as growing along the banks of the Nile, which is believed to be the papyrus, Cyperus papyrus.

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