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RUSH FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes

Synonyms:

family Juncaceae; Juncaceae; rush family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rush 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 "rush family"):

rush (grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems)

genus Juncus; Juncus (type genus of the Juncaceae; perennial tufted glabrous marsh plants of temperate regions: rushes)

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

Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)

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