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Definition of Sedgelike
1. Adjective. Resembling rush or sedge.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sedgelike
Literary usage of Sedgelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature and Ornament by Lewis Foreman Day (1908)
"... among its sedgelike blades of foliage, has quite another and just as ornamental
a character. And every flower has its habit; it may be fragile as a flax ..."
2. Animal Communities in Temperate America: As Illustrated in the Chicago by Victor Ernest Shelford (1913)
"... As such a pond as we have just described grows older, the algae continue and
the reed (Juncus balticus) comes in, together with some sedgelike plants. ..."
3. Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier and Staff Officer Under by McHenry Howard (1914)
"The shores were low lying, with extensive level tracts to the woods some distance
back, covered with a tall sedgelike growth which I took to be wild rice. ..."
4. The New Zealanders by George Lillie Craik (1830)
"... every where near the sea, and in some places a considerable way up the hills,
springing" up from the earth in bunches or tufts, with sedgelike leaves, ..."
5. The New Zealanders by George Lillie Craik (1830)
"... everywhere near the sea, and in some places a considerable way up the hills,
springing up from the earth in bunches or tufts, with sedgelike leaves, ..."
6. The New Zealanders by George Lillie Craik (1830)
"... everywhere near the sea, and in some places a considerable way up the hills,
springing up from the earth in bunches or tufts, with sedgelike leaves, ..."
7. Elements of Geology by Eliot Blackwelder, Harlan Harland Barrows (1911)
"Little floating algse, hardly visible to the eye, low sedgelike forms, and even
large trees were present. But there was this difference: the plants belonged ..."
8. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants by James Sowerby, John Thomas Boswell, Phebe Lankester, John William Salter (1870)
"The nut when not quite mature is lanceolate-acuminate, plano-convex, pale-yellowish.
The ripe nut I have never seen. sedgelike Kobresia. ..."
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