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SEDGE FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant
Synonyms:
Cyperaceae; family Cyperaceae; sedge family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sedge family" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "sedge family"):
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 "sedge family"):
Cyperus; genus Cyperus (type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions)
Holonyms ("sedge family" is a member of...):
Graminales; order Graminales (grasses; sedges; rushes)
