English > Cyperaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant. |
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| Synonyms | family Cyperaceae, sedge family |
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| Member of | Graminales, order Graminales | grasses |
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| Members | Carex, genus Carex | large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins |
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| Eleocharis, genus Eleocharis | sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths |
| Eriophorum, genus Eriophorum | cotton grass |
| Scirpus, genus Scirpus | rhizomatous perennial grasslike herbs |
| sedge | grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers |
| Narrower | Cyperus, genus Cyperus | type genus of Cyperaceae |
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| Broader | monocot family, liliopsid family | family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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| Spanish | ciperáceas, cyperaceas, familia cyperaceas, familia juncias |
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| Catalan | Cyperaceae |
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