sedgeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /sɛd͡ʒ/
• 韻: -ɛdʒ

語源 1

From Middle English segge, from 古期英語 seċġ, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”). Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher (“reeds”).

名詞

sedge (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sedges)

1. Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     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.

2. Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
3. Any of certain other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.

派生語

• sedged
• sedge fly
• sedge frog