Found 2 hits - Term: bog rush, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rush \rush\, n. oe. rusche, rische, resche, as. risce, akin to
lg. rusk, risch, d. g. rusch; all probably fr. l. ruscum
butcher's broom; akin to goth. raus reed, g. rohr.
1. bot. a name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing
endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species
of juncus and scirpus.
1913 webster
note: some species are used in bottoming chairs and plaiting
mats, and the pith is used in some places for wicks to
lamps and rushlights.
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2. the merest trifle; a straw.
1913 webster
john bull's friendship is not worth a rush.
--arbuthnot.
1913 webster
bog rush. see under bog.
club rush, any rush of the genus scirpus.
flowering rush. see under flowering.
nut rush
a any plant of the genus scleria, rushlike plants with
hard nutlike fruits.
b a name for several species of cyperus having
tuberous roots.
rush broom, an australian leguminous plant viminaria
denudata, having long, slender branches. also, the
spanish broom. see under spanish.
rush candle, see under candle.
rush grass, any grass of the genus vilfa, grasses with
wiry stems and one-flowered spikelets.
rush toad zool., the natterjack.
scouring rush. bot. same as dutch rush, under dutch.
spike rush, any rushlike plant of the genus eleocharis,
in which the flowers grow in dense spikes.
sweet rush, a sweet-scented grass of arabia, etc.
andropogon schoenanthus, used in oriental medical
practice.
wood rush, any plant of the genus luzula, which differs
in some technical characters from juncus.
1913 webster
see also:
juncus scirpus bog rush bog club rush flowering rush
flowering nut rush scleria cyperus rush broom
viminaria denudata spanish rush candle candle rush grass
vilfa rush toad scouring rush dutch rush dutch.
spike rush eleocharis sweet rush andropogon schoenanthus wood rush
luzula
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bog \bog\ bo^g, n. ir. gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf.
ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, gael. bogan quagmire.
1913 webster
1. a quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable
matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to
sink; a marsh; a morass.
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appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit,
of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread.
--r. jago.
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2. a little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and
grass, in a marsh or swamp. local, u. s.
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bog bean. see buck bean.
bog bumper bump, to make a loud noise, bog blitter,
bog bluiter, bog jumper, the bittern. prov.
bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found
in the peat bogs of ireland.
bog earth min., a soil composed for the most part of
silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. --p. cyc.
bog moss. bot. same as sphagnum.
bog myrtle bot., the sweet gale.
bog ore. min.
a an ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a
variety of brown iron ore, or limonite.
b bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.
bog rush bot., any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.
bog spavin. see under spavin.
1913 webster
see also:
bog bean buck bean bog bumper bog blitter bog bluiter bog jumper
bog butter bog earth bog moss sphagnum bog myrtle
bog ore bog rush bog spavin spavin
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