ELEOCHARIS

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Eleocharis; genus Eleocharis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("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 "Eleocharis"):

spike rush (a sedge of the genus Eleocharis)

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

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