Crossword-Solution: SEDGE 5 letters, 143 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Sedge	n.	Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
Sedge	n.	A flock of herons.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SEDGE	anagram	EDGES

We have 143 clues for the answer “SEDGE”

Clue	Answers
Wetland grass-like plant	1 answer
AFRICAN aquatic plant	1 answer
AFRICAN swamp plant	1 answer
Bank plant	1 answer
Bit of swamp flora	1 answer
Bog and marsh plant	1 answer
Bog flora	1 answer
CYPERUS papyrus	1 answer
Coarse grasslike plant.	1 answer
Common marsh plant	1 answer
Drought-tolerant lawn covering used in dry climates	1 answer
ENGLISH galingale	1 answer
Everglades grass	1 answer
Galingale	1 answer
Grass in a bog	1 answer
Grasslike growth	1 answer
Grasslike herb in marshes.	1 answer
Grasslike herb.	1 answer
Grasslike marsh plant	1 answer
Grasslike marshland plant	1 answer
Grasslike perennial	1 answer
Grasslike plant in wet places	1 answer
Grasslike plant of marshy regions	1 answer
Grasslike plant, often in marshy places.	1 answer
Grasslike swamp plant	1 answer
Grasslike wetlands plant	1 answer
It grows in tufts in marshy places.	1 answer
It has triangular blades	1 answer
It's a rush	1 answer
It's similar to a rush	1 answer
Marshland herb.	1 answer
Marshy grass	1 answer
Marshy herb	1 answer
NORTH African aquatic plant	1 answer
NORTH African reed-grass	1 answer
NORTH African swamp plant	1 answer
Nutgrass, e.g.	1 answer
Papyrus is one	1 answer
Papyrus relative	1 answer
Papyrus' family	1 answer
Papyrus's family	1 answer
Papyrus, cotton grass, or hassock	1 answer
Plant commonly used in wetlands restoration	1 answer
Plant growing in tufts	1 answer
Plant of wet ground	1 answer
Plant of wet places.	1 answer
Plant sometimes woven into mats	1 answer
Plant that grows in tufts	1 answer
Plant used for papyrus	1 answer
Riparian plant.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AEERT

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greedy person

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Sentences with SEDGE (5)

And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; And the rain poured down from one black cloud; The Moon was at its edge.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2006

There was a startled silence punctuated only by the odd noise of the bird in the sedge; and then, before anyone could speak again, a new face and figure passed in profile round the three sunlit windows, as the prince had passed an hour or two before.

The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995

Meanwhile For their unbroken youth not grass alone, Nor meagre willow-leaves and marish-sedge, But corn-ears with thy hand pluck from the crops.

The Georgics Virgil 2008

But Phorenice had a coyness lest her engine should be seen before it was completed, and so to screen it she had a vast fire built at the uppermost point where the causeway was broken off, and fed diligently with wet sedge and green wood, so that a great smoke poured out, rising like a curtain that shut out all view.

The Lost Continent C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne 2008

Next, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe.

L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas John Milton 1995

Quotes with SEDGE (3)

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ the beauty of a single sycamore. You are Xerxes in Persia. Your army spreads on a vast and arid peneplain…you call to you all your sad captains, and give the order to halt. You have seen the tree with the lights in it, haven’t you? You must have. Xerxes buffeted on a plain, ambition drained in a puff. Your men are bewildered…there is nothing to catch the eye in this flatness, not…

Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black rocks and slanting slabs of sandstone in the earth, ground water is creeping. Ground water seeps and slides, across and down, across and down, leaking from here to there, minutely at a rate of a mile a year. What a tug of waters goes on! There are flings and pulls in every direction at every moment. The world is a wild wrestle under the grass; earth shall be moved. What else is …

Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge, Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back, My heart goes sighing after swallows flown On sometime summer's unreturning track.

Christina Rossetti Complete Poems

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 259 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).