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A bulrush is a tall plant that looks like thick grass and grows in wet places — pond edges, river banks, marshes. The stems stand up in clumps, and birds and frogs hide in them. In the old Bible story, the baby Moses is found in a basket among the bulrushes, so the word also has a storybook feel. Though actually, English speakers are not careful here: they use bulrush for more than one water plant, including ones a scientist would split apart. It is an outdoor, slightly old-fashioned nature word, not a classroom everyday word.
香蒲（水邊那種高草；口語也常想到蘆葦）
組成From Middle English bulrish, perhaps from bule (“bull”), in the sense “large”, + rish (“rush”).
同家族的字
- rushthe grass-like water plant in the second half of the name
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bulrushnoun/ˈbʊlɹʌʃ/
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biblicallifestylereligionA plant referred to in the story of Moses as growing along the banks of the Nile, which is believed to be the papyrus (Cyperus papyrus).
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Any of various tall, narrow-leaved plants growing near water, especially cattail or reedmace, in the genus Typha.
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Sedges in the genera Bolboschoenus or Schoenoplectus (formerly considered Scirpus), having clusters of spikelets.
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Any of various reed-like plants growing near water, especially Typha domingensis and Typha orientalis; cumbungi, wonga.
- Explorers Eyre, Kreft, and George Moore all refer to the importance of bulrush starch in different parts of the continent.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。