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    FAMILY JUNCACEAE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushesplay

    Synonyms:

    family Juncaceae; Juncaceae; rush family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("family Juncaceae" is a kind of...):

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

    Meronyms (members of "family Juncaceae"):

    rush (grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems)

    genus Juncus; Juncus (type genus of the Juncaceae; perennial tufted glabrous marsh plants of temperate regions: rushes)

    Holonyms ("family Juncaceae" is a member of...):

    Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)

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