Sentence examples for bulrush from inspiring English sources

A variegated form of the great bulrush, Schoenoplectus lacustris, is occasionally grown in ponds.

They have thick, woody, often palmlike stems about 5 m (16 feet) tall that end in a tuft of rigid, grasslike leaves from which flower spikes resembling those of the bulrush extend 3 m or more.

Within its drainage basin of 307 square miles (795 square km) are more than 30 square miles (78 square km) of wetlands, supporting such rare plants as the great laurel rhododendron, dragon's-mouth, and river bulrush.

Water milfoil and mare's-tail as well as reeds, bulrush, bird's eye primrose, and orchids can be found.

In Britain, the term bulrush refers to either of two cattails (Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia).

Materials are light and natural – local white quartz, bulrush thatch and smooth recycled fig wood, with chunky wooden beds set under billowing white netting.

Its name may refer to Tuilla, a local Indian leader, or to the abundant tules, or bulrushes, that grew near the local springs.

The account of the infant Moses being placed in the bulrushes (in Exodus) has an earlier counterpart in a Babylonian tale about Sargon, king of Akkad (c. 2334 c. 2279 bce), and is paralleled later in legends associated with the Persian Cyrus and with Tu-Küeh, the fabled founder of the Turkish nation.

The limits of these genera are also somewhat unsettled, with the circumscription and limits of such well-known genera as Cyperus and Scirpus (bulrushes or clubrushes) being somewhat controversial.

Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus) was used in ancient Egypt for making paper and for constructing boats; it apparently was the bulrushes referred to in the biblical story of the infant Moses.

The most primitive type of spikelet is found in the genus Scirpus (bulrushes) and its relatives in the subfamily Cyperoideae.