Meaning & use
Sedge
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A grasslike plant with triangular stems that typically grows in wet, marshy ground.
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Herons hid among the sedge at the edge of the wetland.
The riverbank was thick with sedge and reeds after the spring floods.
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Sedges belong to the family Cyperaceae and are often distinguished from true grasses by their triangular, solid stems, remembered by the rhyme 'sedges have edges.'
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