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BULLRUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bullrush mean? 

BULLRUSH (noun)
  The noun BULLRUSH has 2 senses:

1. tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africaplay

2. tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North Americaplay

  Familiarity information: BULLRUSH used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BULLRUSH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bullrush; bulrush; cat's-tail; nailrod; reed mace; reedmace; Typha latifolia

Hypernyms ("bullrush" is a kind of...):

cattail (tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bullrush; bulrush; common rush; Juncus effusus; soft rush

Hypernyms ("bullrush" is a kind of...):

rush (grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems)

Holonyms ("bullrush" is a member of...):

genus Juncus; Juncus (type genus of the Juncaceae; perennial tufted glabrous marsh plants of temperate regions: rushes)


 Context examples 


It was bowl-shaped and at the bottom, some hundreds of yards from where we lay, were pools of green-scummed, stagnant water, fringed with bullrushes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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