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CYPRESS SEDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cypress sedge mean? 

CYPRESS SEDGE (noun)
  The noun CYPRESS SEDGE has 1 sense:

1. tufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitanplay

  Familiarity information: CYPRESS SEDGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CYPRESS SEDGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Carex pseudocyperus; cypress sedge

Hypernyms ("cypress sedge" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("cypress sedge" is a member of...):

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


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