CAREX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carex mean? 

• CAREX (noun)
  The noun CAREX has 1 sense:

1. large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges

  Familiarity information: CAREX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAREX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Carex; genus Carex

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)