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Definition of Sedges
1. sedge [n] - See also: sedge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sedges
Literary usage of Sedges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"From the nature of the case the most we can expect of fossil grasses and sedges
is that they will give us some idea when these types first appeared on the ..."
2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"Grasses and sedges. The third order is not represented in Minnesota, but the
fourth order, which includes the grasses and sedges, is abundantly represented ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1847)
"Description of some Grasses and sedges from the East Coast of Demerara, ...
THE grasses and sedges are to a flat alluvial soil what the forests are to a ..."
4. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"The nest is usually placed on the ground in a tussock of sedges or grass in a
fresh water marsh, and is composed of sedges and grasses. ..."
5. Illustrated Guide to Integrated Pest Management in Rice in Tropical Asia by W. H. Reissig, International Rice Research Institute (1985)
"Grasses General characteristics of grasses sedges sedges are similar to grasses but:
... The leaves are usually wider than those of grasses and sedges. ..."
6. The Natural History of Prince Edward Island by Francis Bain (1890)
"Club Rushes and sedges are tall, grass-like plants growing in wet and boggy places.
... The sedges have the male and female flowers in separate spikes. ..."
7. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"given by Halliwell as an older provincial word for reeds, and it was applied like
quills to the serried rustling sedges of river reaches and marshy levels. ..."
8. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"SONG IN THE SONGLESS THEY have no song, the sedges dry, And still they sing. ...
There is but sound of sedges dry; In me they sing. ..."
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