Definition of Family cyperaceae

1. Noun. Bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cyperaceae

family Ctenizidae
family Cuculidae
family Cucurbitaceae
family Culicidae
family Cunoniaceae
family Cupressaceae
family Curculionidae
family Cuterebridae
family Cyatheaceae
family Cycadaceae
family Cyclopteridae
family Cymatiidae
family Cynipidae
family Cynocephalidae
family Cynoglossidae
family Cyperaceae
family Cypraeidae
family Cyprinidae
family Cyprinodontidae
family Cyrilliaceae
family Dacninae
family Dacrymycetaceae
family Dactylopiidae
family Dactylopteridae
family Dactyloscopidae
family Danaidae
family Dasyatidae
family Dasypodidae
family Dasyproctidae
family Dasyuridae

Literary usage of Family cyperaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1911)
"... whose reference to the family Cyperaceae seems justified, but which cannot be satisfactorily compared with any of the existing genera of that family. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1899)
"... the flower Gramineae: GRASS FAMILY. Cyperaceae: sedge family DICOTYLEDONS Topic 4 Dicotyledons with distinct petals, flowers in catkins or aments, ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Two families. The grass family (Gramineae), the grasses and grains. The sedge family (Cyperaceae), the sedges. 1193. ..."

4. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"... on the contrary, both Cyperaceae and Gramineae constitute independent branches of a no longer existing ancestral stock. family cyperaceae. ..."

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