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    CYPERACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plantplay

    Synonyms:

    Cyperaceae; family Cyperaceae; sedge family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Cyperaceae"):

    sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)

    Carex; genus Carex (large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges)

    Eriophorum; genus Eriophorum (cotton grass)

    genus Scirpus; Scirpus (rhizomatous perennial grasslike herbs)

    Eleocharis; genus Eleocharis (sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Cyperaceae"):

    Cyperus; genus Cyperus (type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions)

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

    Graminales; order Graminales (grasses; sedges; rushes)

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