CYPRESS SEDGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Tufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitan

Synonyms:

Carex pseudocyperus; cypress sedge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)