sedge

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a grasslike plant of the family Cyperaceae, typically with solid triangular stems and growing in wet ground

   Dense sedge grew along the marshy edge of the pond.

From Middle English segge and Old English secg, inherited from a Germanic name for a marsh plant. Cognates include Dutch zegge and German Segge. The word long predates the modern botanical family Cyperaceae, so it was also applied loosely to similar wetland plants.

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