common rush

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   tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America

   Synonymsbulrushbullrushsoft rushJuncus effusus

   Broaderrush

   Part ofJuncus

Questions about common rush

What does common rush mean?

common rush means "tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America".

What is another word for common rush?

Close synonyms include bulrush, bullrush, soft rush, Juncus effusus. 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 common rush a common word?

common rush 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.