Bulrush
['bʊlrʌʃ]
Definition
(noun.) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America.
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Definition
(n.) A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.
Editor: Martin
Definition
n. a large strong rush which grows on wet land or in water—often applied to the cat's-tail (Typha).—adj. Bul′rushy.
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Examples
- But don't move a step forward, or your life is not worth a bulrush. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They were powerless as a rotten bulrush to protect me--impotent as idiot babblings to restrain him! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- On the same island is still shown the spot where Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Such was the ark of bulrushes in which Moses was hidden by his mother. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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