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CYPRESS SEDGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cypress sedge mean?
• CYPRESS SEDGE (noun)
The noun CYPRESS SEDGE has 1 sense:
1. tufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitan
Familiarity information: CYPRESS SEDGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tufted sedge of temperate regions; nearly cosmopolitan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Carex pseudocyperus; cypress sedge
Hypernyms ("cypress sedge" is a kind of...):
sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)
Holonyms ("cypress sedge" is a member of...):
Carex; genus Carex (large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges)
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