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ˈrushy
/ ˈrʌʃɪ /
adjective
- abounding in, covered with, or made of rushes
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Derived Forms
- ˈrushiness, noun
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Other Words From
- rushi·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
It was succeeded 304 by a vast expanse of shallow mere dotted with half-drowned, rushy islets, and swarming with crocodiles.
The eldest had drained a small field, which used to be called the rushy field, from its having been quite covered with rushes.
The blue eyes met mine—there rose the rushy pool, there dozed the broken boat.
Foshla; a marshy weedy rushy place; commonly applied to the ground left after a cut-away bog.
The bog-track at length became merged in a rushy field, and then indeed did the pent waters of the hunt break forth.
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