A general name for the plants of the genus Scirpus (N. O. Cyperaceæ). b. Sometimes applied to the Reed-mace Typha.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 145. Bearing at the top a little club, as in the other club-rushes.
1776. Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 77. Pointed or 3-square Club-rush.
1794. Martyn, Rousseaus Bot., xiii. 153. Club-rush or Bulrush.
1861. S. Thomson, Wild Fl., 218. There are the club or bullrushes.