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Bulrush

or BULLRUSH, a name sometimes given to the botanical genus typha, called also cat's tail or reed mace.

It is also the name of the genus scirpus, called also clubrush. Especially used of the species scrpus lacustris, lake clubrush. The bulrush of Scripture is the translation of two distinct Hebrew words, agmon, possibly an arundo or some similar genus, in Isa. lviii: 5, and gome, evidently the papyrus nilotica (Ex. ii: 3, Isa. xviii: 2).

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