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sedge

Any of a group of perennial grasslike plants, usually with three-cornered solid stems, common in low water or on wet and marshy ground. (Genus Carex, family Cyperaceae.)
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After these tender contests and her victory she would go away by herself under the remotest cow, if at milking-time, or into the sedge, or into her room, if at a leisure interval, and mourn silently, not a minute after an apparently phlegmatic negative.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
An angler happened luckily to be a-fishing a little below me, though some very high sedge had hid him from my sight.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
The song may be compared to that of the Sedge warbler, but is more powerful; some harsh notes and some very high ones, being mingled with a pleasant warbling.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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