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    CAREX

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedgesplay

    Synonyms:

    Carex; genus Carex

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Carex" is a kind of...):

    liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

    Meronyms (members of "Carex"):

    Carex arenaria; sand reed; sand sedge (European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States; rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla)

    Carex pseudocyperus; cypress sedge (tufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitan)

    Holonyms ("Carex" is a member of...):

    Cyperaceae; family Cyperaceae; sedge family (bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant)

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