Bŭl'rush, n.

n. [From bull, in the sense of large, and rush, q. v.] (Bot.) A plant; a large kind of rush, growing in wet land or water.

☞ The name bulrush is applied, in England, to the Penicillaria spicata (Loudon), the Scirpus lacustris, and also to the Typha latifolia, and T. angustifolia (P. Cyc.); in America, to the Juncus effusus, and also to species of Scirpus.