Definition of Cyperaceae

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyperaceae

Cynoglossum officinale
Cynoglossum virginaticum
Cynomys
Cynomys gunnisoni
Cynomys ludovicianus
Cynopterus
Cynopterus sphinx
Cynoscephalae
Cynoscion
Cynoscion nebulosus
Cynoscion regalis
Cynthia
Cynwulf
Cyon
Cyon's nerve
Cyperaceae
Cyperus
Cyperus alternifolius
Cyperus esculentus
Cyperus longus
Cyperus papyrus
Cyperus rotundus
Cyphomandra
Cypraea
Cypraea moneta
Cypraea tigris
Cypraeidae
Cyprians
Cyprinodontidae

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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