bulrush

n.

1. Any of various aquatic or wetland herbs of the genus Scirpus, having grasslike leaves and usually clusters of small, often brown spikelets.
2. Any of several wetland plants of similar aspect, such as the papyrus and the cattail.

[Middle English bulrish : perhaps alteration (influenced by bule, bull) of bole, stem; see bole¹ + rish, rush; see rush².]

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A wild plant common in ponds and marshes (correctly the false bulrush or common reedmace, Typha latifolia). The young sprouts and shoots can be eaten in salads, the pollen is used as a flavouring, and the roots and unripe flower heads may be boiled as a vegetable.

ornithogalum conicum subsp. conicum.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - dunhammer

Nederlands (Dutch)
bies, papyrus, kattenstaart

Français (French)
n. - jonc

Deutsch (German)
n. - (bot.) Binse, Rohrkolben

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βούρλο

Italiano (Italian)
giunco

Português (Portuguese)
n. - junco (m) (Bot.)

Русский (Russian)
камыш

Español (Spanish)
n. - anea espadaña

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - säv, kaveldun, papyrus

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
芦苇, 纸草, 香蒲

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 蘆葦, 紙草, 香蒲

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 갈대

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - フトイ, ガマ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بردي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אגמון, צמח דמוי קנה-סוף המשמש לאריגה, צמח פפירוס‬

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