sedge

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any plant of the family Cyperaceae. countable,uncountable
  2. A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.
  3. Obsolete spelling of siege. alt-of,obsolete
  4. 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. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  5. A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.
  6. Any of various other plants resembling true sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus. countable,uncountable

词形变化

sedges plural sedges plural sedges plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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
相关词
bulrush reed Carex

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
By contraction from sedge fly.
词源 3
Variant spellings.
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