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ˈwood-rush
[rush n.1]
Any plant of the genus Luzula, comprising grass-like herbs allied to the rushes, with clusters of chaffy brown flowers.
The name belongs properly to the sylvan species, as L. sylvatica (Great Wood-rush, also called wood-grass); the common species L. campestris (Field Wood-rush) is better called field-rush.
1776Withering Bot. Arrangem. 213 Small hairy Wood⁓rush. 1857Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 299 L[uzula] sylvatica (Great Hairy Wood Rush). 1861S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 170 The broad-leaved wood-rush, with its hairy leaves, may..be gathered in woods. 1889Science-Gossip XXV. 188 Luzula albida..is a very graceful woodrush of a peculiar shade of light green. |