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Definition of Soft rush
1. Noun. Tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America.
Generic synonyms: Rush
Group relationships: Genus Juncus, Juncus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soft Rush
Literary usage of Soft rush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"... soft rush—Juncus eff"usus. yellow colour, it is very common to bleach the
rushes in the sun. Some sumptuary law probably regulates the size of these ..."
2. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"Their mats are formed of the soft rush, plaited very closely, and the interstices
afterwards filled up with rice straw. These mats, which are at once the ..."
3. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"... L. and its varieties Other English names: soft rush, Bog Rush. Native. Perennial.
Propagates by seeds and by rootstocks. Time of bloom: June to July. ..."
4. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"COMMON RUSH; BOG RUSH; soft rush JUNCUS EFFUSUS L. Not particularly ... Over this
small area the soft rush grew abundantly, each plant forming a large clump ..."
5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"soft rush Herbaceous perennial, emergent aquatic Swamps, moist fields, flood
plains, shores and ditches. ..."
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