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Definition of Cyperaceae
1. Noun. Bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Graminales, Order Graminales
Member holonyms: Sedge, Carex, Genus Carex, Eriophorum, Genus Eriophorum, Genus Scirpus, Scirpus, Eleocharis, Genus Eleocharis
Specialized synonyms: Cyperus, Genus Cyperus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyperaceae
Literary usage of Cyperaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"COTYLEDON OF Cyperaceae. The development of the sheath in the direction indicated
above is especially well seen in Cyperaceae. There are two cases :— (a) In ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Fruit an achene; stems (culms) solid. Fam. n. Cyperaceae. 1:295. including only the
... Cyperaceae."
3. Acta Soc. Pro Fauna Et Flora Fennica by Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (1888)
"Cyperaceae (cont,). Carex rufina Drej. ') Lapponia (rossica ?): Trautv. Incr. p.
823; arten förekommer dock, så vidt hittills är ..."
4. Flora of Vermont: A List of the Fern and Seed Plants Growing Without Cultivation by Ezra Brainerd, Vermont Botanical Club, Lewis Ralph Jones, Willard Webster Eggleston (1900)
"... FLORA OF VERMONT Cyperaceae. SEDGE FAMILY CAREX. SEDGE C. albicans, Willd.
Dry shady ledges ; common in Western Vermont. For description see Bot. Gaz. ..."
5. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"Parasitic on the rhizomes of low Cyperaceae, in damp shortly grassy pastures
along the ... Cyperaceae ..."
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