CYPERACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cyperaceae mean? 

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

1. bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYPERACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cyperaceae; family Cyperaceae; sedge family

Hypernyms ("Cyperaceae" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Cyperaceae"):

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 "Cyperaceae"):

Cyperus; genus Cyperus (type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions)

Holonyms ("Cyperaceae" is a member of...):

Graminales; order Graminales (grasses; sedges; rushes)