noun
large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges
• Syn: ↑genus Carex
• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cyperaceae, ↑family Cyperaceae, ↑sedge family
• Member Meronyms: ↑sand sedge, ↑sand reed, ↑Carex arenaria, ↑cypress sedge, ↑Carex pseudocyperus
Useful english dictionary. 2012.