English Dictionary

sedge

IPA（発音記号）

/sɛd͡ʒ/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

日本語の意味

ケアックス属に属する多年生の湿地性草本植物。三角形で節のない茎、穂状の花序、粗い縁と中脈を持つ刃状の長い葉が特徴。

A lone sedge rose from the marsh, its triangular, jointless stem and rough-edged leaves distinguishing it from the surrounding grasses.

湿地から一本のカヤツリグサ属の植物が伸び、その三角形で節のない茎や縁と中肋がざらついた長い葉が周囲の草とは異なって際立っていた。

意味（1）

Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

意味（2）

Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.

意味（3）

Any of certain other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.

sedges （ plural ）