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sedge
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?d??/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Etymology 1
From Middle English segge, from Old English se??, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”). Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher (“reeds”).
Noun
sedge (countable and uncountable, plural sedges)
- 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.
- 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.
- Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
- Any of certain other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
Derived terms
- sedged
- sedge fly
- sedge frog
Translations
See also
- bulrush
- reed
- sedge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Carex on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Etymology 2
By contraction from sedge fly.
Noun
sedge (plural sedges)
- (fishing) A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.
Etymology 3
Variant spellings.
Noun
sedge (plural sedges)
- Obsolete spelling of siege
- Alternative spelling of segge
- A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.
References
- sedge at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- edges
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galingale
English
Etymology
From Middle English galingale, from Old French galingal, from Arabic ??????????? (?alanj?n), from Persian ???????? (qulinjân, qulanjân), from Sanskrit ??????? (kulañjana), perhaps from Chinese ??????? (g?oliángji?ng), from ?? (a prefecture or county in China) + ? (“ginger”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æl???e?l/
Noun
galingale (countable and uncountable, plural galingales)
- Alternative spelling of galangal
- 1980, The Times, 10 Jan 1980, p.12 col. A
- An early English version [of marmelade] was called charedequynce, of which one version included wine, honey, ginger, galingale, cinnamon and wardens as well as quinces.
- 1980, The Times, 10 Jan 1980, p.12 col. A
- One of several species of Cyperus sedges with aromatic rhizomes.
Middle English
Noun
galingale
- Alternative form of galyngale
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