genus cyperus
English Thesaurus
1. type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | liliopsid genus, monocot genus, |
| definition | : | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant) |
| hypernym | : | cyperaceae, family cyperaceae, sedge family, |
| definition | : | bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | cyperus alternifolius, umbrella plant, umbrella sedge, |
| definition | : | African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | chufa, cyperus esculentus, earth almond, ground almond, rush nut, yellow nutgrass, |
| definition | : | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | cyperus longus, galangal, galingale, |
| definition | : | European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | cyperus papyrus, egyptian paper reed, egyptian paper rush, paper plant, paper rush, papyrus, |
| definition | : | tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass, nutsedge, |
| definition | : | a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers (noun.plant) |
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