ˈclub-rush
A general name for the plants of the genus Scirpus (family Cyperaceæ). b. Sometimes applied to the Reed-mace Typha.
| 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 145 Bearing at the top a little club, as in the other club-rushes. 1776 Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 77 Pointed or 3-square Club-rush. 1794 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xiii. 153 Club-rush or Bulrush. 1861 S. Thomson Wild Fl. 218 There are the club or bullrushes. |