sedge
/sɛd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of various other plants resembling true sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.
Example Sentences
- "But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sek-der. Proto-Germanic *sagjaz Proto-West Germanic *sagi Old English seċġ Middle English segge English sedge From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”). Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher (“reeds”).