Definition of 'bulrush'
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Word origin of 'bulrush'
noun
1.
any of a number of marsh plants (genus Scirpus) of the sedge family, having slender, round or triangular, solid stems tipped with brown spikelets of minute flowers
2. British
the cattail
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Grinko was our schoolteacher, a tall man, tall as a bulrush and as mild, with a neat white beard. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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