How To Use Bulrush In A Sentence
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The most frequently emergent macrophytes used are reeds, bulrushes, cattails, rushes and sedges.
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The Squamscott River Wetlands Component boasts four rare plants: the marsh elder, the stout bulrush, the small spike-rush and the exserted knotweed.
Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
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Cattails and bulrushes will replace the invasive phragmites that have choked the waterways.
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Other species found during the survey include coontail, fragrant waterlily, American pondweed, duckweed, American frogbit, cattail, soft-stem bulrush, and arrowhead.
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Plants like cattails, bulrushes, jewelweed, and the lovely cardinal flower do best with alternating wet and dry periods, and survive flooding as long as most of the leaves are out of the water.
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A vegetation study was conducted within central Pennsylvania's Ridge and Valley Province at the Mohn Mill natural area, an area that harbors the federally endangered northeastern bulrush, Scirpus ancistrochaetus.
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As the lake recedes, it gives an increasing foothold to ‘emergents’ - cattails, bulrushes and other plant species that grow at the water's edge.
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Trivia note of the week: apparently this plant used to be called reedmace, and became known as 'bulrush' because of an erroneously named but popular painting.
High summer
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The name bulrush is more correctly applied to _Scirpus lacustris_, a member of a different family (Cyperaceae), a common plant in wet places, with tall spongy, usually leafless stems, bearing a tuft of many-flowered spikelets.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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However, if such management is directed at ponds where northeastern bulrush already occurs, this approach will do little to maintain conditions appropriate for colonization of new vernal ponds.
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Mostly food plants, and special effects ... a beerbarrel tree-how did that get in here? ... water locust ... bulrush -
Centaur Aisle
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He put the potato blight in the foreground; for, with the instinct of the caddice worm, he felt that this was the piece of bulrush by which he could best float his
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
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Rare plants include a sedge, wooly lip-fern, Parker's pipewort, slender knotweed, spongy arrowhead, saltmarsh bulrush and pigmyweed.
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York
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Foot by foot, inch by inch, it was coming closer to the quiet back water where I was standing waist deep among the bulrushes.
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Although there were abundant lakes and ponds on the islands, they would have been vegetated chiefly by bulrushes.
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Like beavers, muskrats build lodges out of sticks, twigs, cattails and bulrushes, reinforcing them with mud.
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Above, the sky would be of a cold blue colour, save for a fringe of flame-coloured streaks on the horizon that kept turning ever paler and paler; and when the moon had come out there would be wafted through the limpid air the sounds of a frightened bird fluttering, of a bulrush rubbing against its fellows in the gentle breeze, and of a fish rising with a splash.
Poor Folk
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Plants like cattails, bulrushes, jewelweed, and the lovely cardinal flower do best with alternating wet and dry periods, and survive flooding as long as most of the leaves are out of the water.
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Norma Keane studied water flowers such as white water lilies and bulrushes while Darren Roache enjoyed completing his work on crustaceans.
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Incidentally, the village's name, Tupátaro, means "place of reeds or bulrushes", plants that still thrive in profusion today on the shores of nearby Lake Patzcuaro and are widely used in making modern handicrafts.
Did you know? The Sistine Chapel of Mexico
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Especially important are the assemblies of peat-bog plants with species like sweetgale, cross-leaved heath, shoreweed, heath rush, tufted bulrush.
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The surrounding carved stonework contained the date, and in the middle were metal panels displaying a dolphin with bulrushes.
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Dense stands of the ten-foot-tall soft-stem bulrush grow in a few places.
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Borland takes me on a tour of the back end of the distillery, where the waste water is filtered through reed beds full of bulrushes and lilies.
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Tiny, 3-month-old Moses lies in his basket of papyrus and pitch, resting in the bulrushes, just at the point of discovery.
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At first its banks are lined with campion, vetch, roses, bulrushes and meadowsweet and later with poplar trees heavy with overhanging mistletoe.
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And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
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Soft-stem bulrush occurs throughout North America from central Alaska south to Mexico, east to the Maritime Provinces of Canada, and south through Florida.
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A glossy ibis waded between the bulrushes and black swallows dipped in and out of the water.
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In the marshes and stream banks are green dragon, blue flag irises, swamp white oak, silver maple, bladder nut, poison ivy, bulrush, and willow.
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Wetland communities include, in addition to stands of soft-stem bulrush, very marshy areas with water plantain and broad-leaved arrowhead, two closely related species whose flowers have three white petals.
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Or climate warming could be accelerating the rate at which marsh plants such as cattails, bulrushes, and sedges invade ponds and convert them to meadows.
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This new king became known as the Pharaoh of the Oppression, and it was during his time that the story of the infant Moses in the bulrushes is set.
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The three dominant plant types in the natural wetland at year 15 were the rice cutgrass, softstem bulrush and cattails.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
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Grasping a handful of bulrushes to steady herself, she leaned precariously out to grab it.
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Shoreline plants include soft-stem bulrush, hardstem bulrush, river bulrush and an aquatic, purple-petaled wildflower known as water willow.
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Wetland species occurring along the shoreline include buttonbush, dogwood, blue flag, river bulrush, cattail and arrowhead.
Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio
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Like beavers, muskrats build lodges out of sticks, twigs, cattails and bulrushes, reinforcing them with mud.
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The biblical story of Moses records that, in order to avoid the persecution of the Pharaoh, Moses' parents concealed him by the river in an ark of bulrushes, from which he was rescued by the Pharaoh's daughter.
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a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former ....
Walden
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The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former ....
Walden
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Cattails and bulrushes are especially efficient at absorbing large quantities of nitrogen and phosphorous, substances easily transported in runoff.
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The giant was in the midst of it; but weak as the bulrush were the mighty limbs of Maximus before the rushing gale.
Ungava
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These are built of stalks and leaves of bulrushes, flag, and reed-mace and reed.
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Populations of listed plants like the northeastern bulrush are prone to extirpation because of their occurrence in sensitive habitats.
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The men go naked; the women take bulrushes, and kemb them after the manner of hemp, and thereof make their loose garments, which being knit about their middles, hang down about their hips, having also about their shoulders a skin of deer, with the hair upon it.
Sir Francis Drake’s Famous Voyage Round the World
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Bulrush millet may be intercropped with maize but in different lines.
Chapter 7
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And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
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Cattails and bulrushes will replace the invasive phragmites that have choked the waterways.
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Two species of bulrush (Scirpus lacustris var. occidentalis, and S. Tatora) are abundant in low lands along riversides in California.
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Recent field and experimental findings from central Pennsylvania populations of northeastern bulrush, including those at Mohn Mill, indicate that light availability is critical to the plant's performance.
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Two beneficial plants Cassani said can be installed around lake margins are bulrush - sometimes called buggywhips - and lower growing pickerelweed, which produces beautiful blue flower spikes.
Undefined
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The open basket can be compared to the arc of bulrushes into which Moses was cast by his Hebrew mother ‘when she could no longer hide him’.
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The seasonally flooded hollows are covered with sea clubrush Scirpus maritimus, bulrush Schoenoplectus lacustris, rushes Juncus sp. and crowfoot Ranunculus baudotii.
Doñana National Park, Spain
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Brackish marsh species include giant cordgrass (Spartina cynosuroides), salt marsh bulrush, common three-square, soft-stem bulrush, broadleaf cattail, arrowhead, spider-lily, salt reedgrass, reed and arrow arum.
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
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First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.
Ulysses
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Northeastern bulrush inhabits small vernal ponds that occur within the forest matrix.
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Studying it, I finally grasped the connection between the story of the bulrushes and Moses' death before entering the Promised Land.
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Grasping a handful of bulrushes to steady herself, she leaned precariously out to grab it.
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The female builds the nest, which is a bulky, open cup made of leaves, stems, and grass, and lashed to cattails, bulrushes, or other plants growing over the water.
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It and the flag, or bulrush, grow only in marshy places (such as are along the Nile).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Nests are made of grass, and are usually lashed to cattails, bulrushes, or other emergent vegetation close to the water.
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They thought that they would die, but there might be a chance that the baby's cooler would float and that - like Moses in the bulrushes - the baby would be found and saved.
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Lachlan, Murrumbidgee, and Millewà; the former being a cane or bamboo, the latter a bulrush, affording, in its root, much nutritious gluten.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Interspersed are areas dominated by mulefat, and low marshy areas dominated by bulrush (Scirpus sp.) and cattails (Typha sp.).
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Canvasbacks and redheads will nest over water using emergent plants, such as cattails and bulrushes.
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Their houses are constructed of bulrushes, weeds and packed mud, with separate sleeping platforms for each member of the family.
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The seasonally flooded hollows are covered with sea clubrush Scirpus maritimus, bulrush Schoenoplectus lacustris, rushes Juncus sp. and crowfoot Ranunculus baudotii.
Doñana National Park, Spain
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In the distance, between the bulrush plumes, a bridge across the stream can be seen among the foliage.
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Grabbing fruitlessly at bulrush stalks, which snap like chicken bones, he crashes face down into the mud.
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The sediment load is settling out with the passage of time and the purifying influence of cattails and bulrushes.
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David's abandonment in the forest primeval is also his deliverance from destruction, Moses left in the bulrushes.
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Marshland, containing cattails, bulrushes, and other reeds, would have been limited to the borders of the wooded ridges of levees, where the water level was consistently below the surface.
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Whether crouching among the bulrushes or standing to embrace her swan lover, Leda has a body contoured and posed in a fleshy, sexy way.
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The most frequently emergent macrophytes used are reeds, bulrushes, cattails, rushes and sedges.
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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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She just appeared one day, like Moses in the bulrushes.
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Egrets, terns, mallards, pelicans, eagles, tundra swans, and herons browsed amid thickets of 10-foot-tall bulrushes known as tule (too-lee).
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The sound of falling water rang around him in a chorus of unnumbered voices as he trudged through the mud and trampled the bulrushes, making toward where he had last seen the fledgling.
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The meaner sort of wigwams are covered with mats they make of a kind of bulrush, which are also indifferent tight and warm, but not so good as the former.
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02
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He walked by bay rose and bulrushes towards Trentside Farm, nondescript marshland plated with rubbish tips.
THE OPEN DOOR
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First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.
Ulysses
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Bulrush gray. dew white . my beloved, just on the water side.
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Seven dominant plant types were growing in year 15 in the created wetland: bur-reed, a variety of cattails, river bulrush and softstem bulrush, American lotus, sago pondweed and rice cutgrass.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
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The nests are usually located on dry land close to water, in areas with dense cover, especially bulrush.
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Visitors are especially intrigued by the large frog pond, complete with real frogs, pollywogs, bog plants, bulrushes, pickerel and water lilies, adjacent to the winery tasting room and cellars.
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Visitors are especially intrigued by the large frog pond, complete with real frogs, pollywogs, bog plants, bulrushes, pickerel and water lilies, adjacent to the winery tasting room and cellars.
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Of meadowgrass and riverflags, the bulrush and waterweed, and of fallen griefs of weeping willow.
Finnegans Wake
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Its dried-up canals have been taken over by the Typha australis bulrush, said Asuquo-Obot, who has been doing research on the macrophytic vegetation of large lakes.
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I've also done "Flyway Fried Rice" with wild rice, bulrush shoots, black walnuts, wild onions and wild duck.
Stephanie J. Stiavetti: An Interview With Hank Shaw, the Hunter/Angler/Gardener/Cook
