English > genus Carex: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges. |
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| Synonym | Carex |
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| Member of | Cyperaceae, family Cyperaceae, sedge family | bulrush |
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| Members | cypress sedge, Carex pseudocyperus | tufted sedge of temperate regions |
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| sand sedge, sand reed, Carex arenaria | European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States |
| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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| Spanish | carex, genus carex |
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| Catalan | carex, Carex, genus carex |
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