On the margin of ponds and streams we may see, flying from one bulrush to another, certain insects with large transparent wings and abdomen long and slender like a piece of string.
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Bulrush
//ˈbʊlɹʌʃ//
Synonyms for "bulrush" (17 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (5)
Noun(4 words)
Related words (8)
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51 translations across 32 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- kallame noun (any of several wetland plants)
- xunkth noun (any of several wetland plants)
Bulgarian
1 entries- папур noun (any of several wetland plants)
Catalan
1 entries- boga noun (any of several wetland plants)
Dutch
1 entries- bies noun (any of several wetland plants)
Egyptian
1 entries- H-Hn:n-i-M2 noun (any of several wetland plants)
Finnish
1 entries- kaisla noun (any of several wetland plants)
French
2 entries- jonc noun (any of several wetland plants)
- scirpe noun (any of several wetland plants)
Galician
3 entries- canaveira noun (any of several wetland plants)
- carrizo noun (any of several wetland plants)
- espadana noun (any of several wetland plants)
German
1 entries- Simse noun (any of several wetland plants)
Hebrew
1 entries- סוּף noun (any of several wetland plants)
Hungarian
4 entries- gyékény noun (any of several wetland plants)
- káka noun (any of several wetland plants)
- palka noun (any of several wetland plants)
- sás noun (any of several wetland plants)
Ingrian
1 entries- glaisa noun (any of several wetland plants)
Italian
1 entries- giunco di palude noun (any of several wetland plants)
Japanese
1 entries- イ noun (any of several wetland plants)
Korean
1 entries- 골풀 noun (any of several wetland plants)
Latin
1 entries- scirpus noun (any of several wetland plants)
Lushootseed
1 entries- ʔulal noun (any of several wetland plants)
Macedonian
3 entries- рогоз noun (any of several wetland plants)
- шавар noun (any of several wetland plants)
- шамак noun (any of several wetland plants)
Māori
3 entries- kāpūngāwhā noun (any of several wetland plants)
- raupō noun (any of several wetland plants)
- wīwī noun (any of several wetland plants)
Nyunga
1 entries- tanjil noun (any of several wetland plants)
Old English
1 entries- ēarisċ noun (any of several wetland plants)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قوغهلق noun (any of several wetland plants)
Polish
1 entries- sitowie noun (any of several wetland plants)
Portuguese
2 entries- junco noun (any of several wetland plants)
- taboa noun (any of several wetland plants)
Quechua
1 entries- tutura noun (any of several wetland plants)
Romanian
1 entries- papură noun (any of several wetland plants)
Russian
1 entries- рого́з noun (any of several wetland plants)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- luachair-bhog noun (any of several wetland plants)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- rogoz noun (any of several wetland plants)
Spanish
4 entries- aceña noun (any of several wetland plants)
- anea noun (any of several wetland plants)
- boga noun (any of several wetland plants)
- enea noun (any of several wetland plants)
Venetan
1 entries- bruła noun (any of several wetland plants)
Welsh
2 entries- clwbfrwynen noun (any of several wetland plants)
- llafrwynen noun (any of several wetland plants)
Sample sentences
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Explorers Eyre, Kreft, and George Moore all refer to the importance of bulrush starch in different parts of the continent.
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