Bulrush Definition

bo͝olrŭsh
bulrushes
noun
bulrushes
Any of a number of marsh plants (genus Scirpus) of the sedge family, having slender, round or triangular, solid stems tipped with brown spikelets of minute flowers.
Webster's New World
The cattail.
Webster's New World
Any aquatic plant resembling a bulrush, as the papyrus.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Bulrush

Noun

Singular:
bulrush
Plural:
bulrushes

Origin of Bulrush

  • Middle English bulrish perhaps alteration (influenced by bule bull) of bole stem bole1 rish rush rush2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bulrush Sentence Examples

  • Reedmace (used to be called bulrush) is a good example.

  • Bulrush (Scirpus) - Sedge-like plants fringing lakes and ponds.

  • The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former....

  • It is a water plant for association with the taller sedges, Bulrush, and bolder water-side plants.

  • It is one of the boldest and handsomest of hardy grasses for the margins of artificial water or streams, associated with such things as the Typhas, Acorus, Bulrush, and Water Dock.

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Words Starting With

BBUBUL

Words Ending With

HSHUSH

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Words Starting With B and Ending With H

Starts With B & Ends With HStarts With BU & Ends With HStarts With B & Ends With SH

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With B7 Letter Words Ending With H