| NOUN | plant | sedge family, Cyperaceae, family Cyperaceae | bulrush |
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| Meaning | bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant. | |
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| Synonyms | Cyperaceae, family Cyperaceae | |
| Member of | Graminales, order Graminales | grasses |
| Members | Carex, genus Carex | large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins |
| 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 |
| Broader | monocot family, liliopsid family | family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
| Spanish | ciperáceas, cyperaceas, familia cyperaceas, familia juncias | |
| Catalan | Cyperaceae | |
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