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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 Africa
2. tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America
Familiarity information: BULLRUSH used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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