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GENUS CYPERUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions
Synonyms:
Cyperus; genus Cyperus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Cyperus" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Cyperaceae; family Cyperaceae; sedge family (bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cyperus"):
Cyperus alternifolius; umbrella plant; umbrella sedge (African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves)
chufa; Cyperus esculentus; earth almond; ground almond; rush nut; yellow nutgrass (European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers)
Cyperus longus; galangal; galingale (European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots)
Cyperus papyrus; Egyptian paper reed; Egyptian paper rush; paper plant; paper rush; papyrus (tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times)
Cyperus rotundus; nut grass; nut sedge; nutgrass; nutsedge (a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers)
