English > family Cyperaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant. |
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Synonyms | 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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