juncus effusus

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

   Synonymsbulrushbullrushcommon rushsoft rush

   Broaderrush

   Part ofJuncus

Questions about juncus effusus

What does juncus effusus mean?

juncus effusus 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 juncus effusus?

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

juncus effusus 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.