Definition of Common rush

1. Noun. Tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America.

Exact synonyms: Bullrush, Bulrush, Juncus Effusus, Soft Rush
Generic synonyms: Rush
Group relationships: Genus Juncus, Juncus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Rush

common raccoon
common racoon
common ragweed
common rat
common rats
common raven
common redstart
common reed
common ringlet
common ringlets
common room
common rooms
common rorqual
common rose mallow
common roundworm
common rush (current term)
common sage
common salt
common scold
common scoter
common seal
common sedge
common sedges
common sense
common shares
common shiner
common shrew
common sickle pine
common snapping turtle

Literary usage of Common rush

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"A very common rush, about foot-paths and roadsides, and in fields and meadows, ... A common rush, in salt marshes, NJ to the Arctic Sea, usually with dark ..."

2. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"A very common rush, about foot-paths and roadsides, and in fields and meadows, ... A common rush, in salt marshes, NJ to the Arctic Sea, usually with dark ..."

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