SPIKE RUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spike rush mean? 

• SPIKE RUSH (noun)
  The noun SPIKE RUSH has 1 sense:

1. a sedge of the genus Eleocharis

  Familiarity information: SPIKE RUSH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPIKE RUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sedge of the genus Eleocharis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("spike rush" is a kind of...):

sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spike rush"):

Chinese water chestnut; Eleocharis dulcis; water chestnut (Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers)

Eleocharis acicularis; hair grass; needle rush; needle spike rush; slender spike rush (fine-leaved aquatic spike rush; popular as aerator for aquariums)

creeping spike rush; Eleocharis palustris (cylindrical-stemmed sedge)

Holonyms ("spike rush" is a member of...):

Eleocharis; genus Eleocharis (sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths)