GENUS CYPERUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cyperus mean? 

• GENUS CYPERUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS CYPERUS has 1 sense:

1. type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions

  Familiarity information: GENUS CYPERUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CYPERUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cyperus; genus Cyperus

Hypernyms ("genus Cyperus" is a kind of...):

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

Cyperaceae; family Cyperaceae; sedge family (bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant)

Meronyms (members of "genus Cyperus"):

Cyperus alternifolius; umbrella plant; umbrella sedge (African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves)

chufa; Cyperus esculentus; earth almond; ground almond; rush nut; yellow nutgrass (European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers)

Cyperus longus; galangal; galingale (European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots)

Cyperus papyrus; Egyptian paper reed; Egyptian paper rush; paper plant; paper rush; papyrus (tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times)

Cyperus rotundus; nut grass; nut sedge; nutgrass; nutsedge (a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers)