bulrush

Other forms of bulrush

plural

bulrushes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bulrush

What does bulrush mean?

bulrush means "tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bulrush?

bulrush has 2 syllables: bul-rush. The stress falls on "bul". In IPA it is /ˈbʊlɹəʃ/.

What is another word for bulrush?

Close synonyms include cat's-tail, bullrush, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bulrush a common word?

bulrush is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.