English > genus Cyperus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions. |
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| Synonym | Cyperus |
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| Members | chufa, yellow nutgrass, earth almond, ground almond, rush nut, Cyperus esculentus | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
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| galingale, galangal, Cyperus longus | European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots |
| nutgrass, nut grass, nutsedge, nut sedge, Cyperus rotundus | A widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
| papyrus, Egyptian paper reed, Egyptian paper rush, paper rush, paper plant, Cyperus papyrus | tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times |
| umbrella plant, umbrella sedge, Cyperus alternifolius | African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves |
| Broader | Cyperaceae, family Cyperaceae, sedge family | bulrush |
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| monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
| Spanish | cyperus, genus cyperus |
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| Catalan | cyperus, genus cyperus |
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