rush nut

Questions about rush nut

What does rush nut mean?

rush nut means "European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers".

What is another word for rush nut?

Close synonyms include chufa, yellow nutgrass, earth almond, ground almond, Cyperus esculentus. 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 rush nut a common word?

rush nut is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.