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Definition of Rushlike
1. Adjective. Resembling rush or sedge.
Definition of Rushlike
1. a. Resembling a rush; weak.
Definition of Rushlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a rush (the plant). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rushlike
1. resembling a rush (a grasslike marsh plant) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rushlike
Literary usage of Rushlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1866)
"Stems erect, almost leafless, terete, angular, or slightly compressed, either
rushlike and 1 to 2 ft. high, or shorter more branched and ..."
2. Weeds of the Farm and Garden by Louis Hermann Pammel (1911)
"Not rushlike nor jointed (Polypodiaceae). P. 137. Plants producing pollen and
ovules, which develop into seeds. 2 2. Embryo of one cotyledon; ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"YELLOW-EYED GRASS, the common name of the genus Xyris, composed of rushlike
plants, with bright yellow flowers produced from the summit of a naked scape, ..."
4. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1901)
"... wide expanse covered with rank, coarse, rushlike grass sometimes flooded
middle-deep and wearing the appearance of an inland sea; but such is the fact. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1901)
"... which is of especial interest as possessing two sorts of leaves, one of_ the
usual rushlike kind, and the other submerged, borne in dense fascicles, ..."
6. The Origins of Invention: A Study of Industry Among Primitive Peoples by Otis Tufton Mason (1895)
"A style of weaving controlled largely by the abundance of cat-tail and other
great rushlike stems remains to be described. A number of the stalks laid ..."
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