GENUS ELEOCHARIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Eleocharis mean? 

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

1. sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ELEOCHARIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eleocharis; genus Eleocharis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Eleocharis"):

spike rush (a sedge of the genus Eleocharis)

Holonyms ("genus Eleocharis" is a member of...):

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