Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of monocotyledonous plants including the bulrushes, type of the tribe Scirpeæ in the order Cyperaceæ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rhizomatous perennial grasslike herbs
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Riding on through the timber, about dark we found abundant water in small ponds, 20 to 30 yards in diameter, with clear deep water and sandy beds, bordered with bog rushes, (_juncus effusus_,) and a tall rush (_scirpus lacustris_) twelve feet high, and surrounded near the margin with willow-trees in bloom; among them one which resembled _salix myricoides_.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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Three-square, or scirpus olneyi, a sedge blanketing this salt marsh and commonly found throughout much of North America, grows thicker and faster as it's fed more carbon dioxide,
Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Baltimore Sun: Timoth 2009
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