different between sedge vs nutsedge

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)

1. 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.

2. Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
3. 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)

1. (fishing) A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.

Etymology 3

Variant spellings.

Noun

sedge (plural sedges)

1. Obsolete spelling of siege
2. Alternative spelling of segge
3. A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.

References

• sedge at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• edges

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

nut +? sedge

Noun

nutsedge (plural nutsedges)

1. (US) Any of certain species of invasive perennial sedge, of the genus Cyperus, that have edible, nutlike tubers.

Synonyms

• nutgrass

Derived terms

• false nutsedge (Cyperus strigosus)
• purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus, Cyperus esculentus)
• yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus)