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- noun Plural form of
sedge .
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Examples
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One type of carbon is produced from tree leaves, nuts and fruit, another from grasses and grasslike plants called sedges.
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Caddis-worms are the larvæ of an order of four-winged flies commonly known as sedges, caddis-flies, or water-moths.
Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker
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The sedges are the small green-topped islands that dot the bay.
unknown title BY JOHN OSWALD | STAFF WRITER 2009
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The leafiest, most productive vegetation in the area appears bright green; located in the soggy depressions of drained lake beds, these plant communities would likely contain more thirsty, grass-like plants called sedges than other areas would.
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They can be grasses, plants that look like grasses - such as sedges or rushes - or broad leafed.
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They can be grasses, plants that look like grasses - such as sedges or rushes - or broad leafed.
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Throughout our current guide outfitting territory, people armed only with cameras can now find grizzlies feeding on spring sedges or wolf pups playing in tidal mud flats.
Chris Genovali: The Cruelest Month for British Columbia's Coastal Carnivores Chris Genovali 2011
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The habitat at the top of the cliff was very different than at the base—grassland steppe, though overgrazed, showed a diversity of sedges and grasses.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The flora was sagebrush and sedges and some grass.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Throughout our current guide outfitting territory, people armed only with cameras can now find grizzlies feeding on spring sedges or wolf pups playing in tidal mud flats.
Chris Genovali: The Cruelest Month for British Columbia's Coastal Carnivores Chris Genovali 2011
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