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SPIKE RUSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sedge of the genus Eleocharis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("spike rush" is a kind of...):
sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spike rush"):
Chinese water chestnut; Eleocharis dulcis; water chestnut (Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers)
Eleocharis acicularis; hair grass; needle rush; needle spike rush; slender spike rush (fine-leaved aquatic spike rush; popular as aerator for aquariums)
creeping spike rush; Eleocharis palustris (cylindrical-stemmed sedge)
Holonyms ("spike rush" is a member of...):
Eleocharis; genus Eleocharis (sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths)
