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GENUS ELEOCHARIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths
Synonyms:
Eleocharis; genus Eleocharis
Classified under:
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)
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