sedge
nounEtymology By contraction from sedge fly.
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Fishing, Hobbies, Lifestyle A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.
sedge
noun/sɛd͡ʒ/
Etymology 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”).
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Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
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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.
- 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.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
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Any of various other plants resembling true sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
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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