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Cyperus   Listen
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Cyperus  n.  (Bot.) A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cyperus" Quotes from Famous Books



... was summer day long enough for me to see and to study all that the old road had to show. Here, at the moist edge of the road, the ditch stone-crop is opening its yellow-green flowers, each one a study in perfect symmetry. With the showy, straw-colored cyperus it flourishes under the friendly shade of the overhanging cord-grasses whose flowering stalks already have shot up beyond the reach of a man. Among them grows the tall blue vervain, its tapering fingers ...
— Some Summer Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell



Words linked to "Cyperus" :   Cyperus rotundus, Cyperus esculentus, nut grass, Cyperus alternifolius, genus Cyperus, family Cyperaceae, galangal, yellow nutgrass, ground almond, umbrella sedge, umbrella plant, sedge family, Egyptian paper rush, nutgrass, papyrus, Cyperus longus, Cyperus papyrus, nutsedge, chufa



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