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CAREX
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges
Synonyms:
Carex; genus Carex
Classified under:
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)
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