bulrush

bulrush

English

Bulrushes

Alternative forms

• bullrush

Etymology

Middle English bulrish, perhaps from bule (“bull”) (in the sense of "large") plus rish (“rush”).

Noun

bulrush (plural bulrushes)

1. Any of several wetland plants, mostly in the family Cyperaceae (the sedges):
   1. (Americas) Sedges in the genera Bolboschoenus or Schoenoplectus (formerly considered Scirpus), having clusters of spikelets.
   2. (Britain) Cattails or reedmace, in the genus Typha
   3. (biblical) A plant referred to in the story of Moses as growing along the banks of the Nile, which is believed to be the papyrus, Cyperus papyrus.

Related terms

• rush

Translations

Any of several wetland plants

Bulgarian: папур (papur) Finnish: kaisla (fi) French: scirpe (fr) m German: Simse (de) f Hebrew: סוּף‎ (he) m (suf) Italian: giunco di palude m Korean: 골풀 (ko) (golpul) Latin: scirpus m

Maori: kāpūngāwhā, raupō, wīwī Nyunga: tanjil Portuguese: junco (pt) m, taboa f Quechua: tutura Romanian: papură (ro) Russian: рого́з (ru) m (rogóz) Scottish Gaelic: (en masse) luachair-bhog f Serbo-Croatian: rogoz (sh) m

See also

• cattail
• papyrus
• reed
• sedge

Further reading

• bulrush on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cyperaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cyperaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons