| NOUN | plant | spike rush | a sedge of the genus Eleocharis |
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| Meaning | A sedge of the genus Eleocharis. | |
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| Member of | Eleocharis, genus Eleocharis | sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths |
| Narrower | creeping spike rush, Eleocharis palustris | cylindrical-stemmed sedge |
| needle spike rush, needle rush, slender spike rush, hair grass, Eleocharis acicularis | fine-leaved aquatic spike rush | |
| water chestnut, Chinese water chestnut, Eleocharis dulcis | Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers | |
| Broader | sedge | grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers |
| Spanish | castaña de agua | |
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