SEDGE FAMILY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant

Synonyms:

Cyperaceae; family Cyperaceae; sedge family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sedge family" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "sedge family"):

sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)

Carex; genus Carex (large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges)

Eriophorum; genus Eriophorum (cotton grass)

genus Scirpus; Scirpus (rhizomatous perennial grasslike herbs)

Eleocharis; genus Eleocharis (sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sedge family"):

Cyperus; genus Cyperus (type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions)

Holonyms ("sedge family" is a member of...):

Graminales; order Graminales (grasses; sedges; rushes)