carex
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of carex
< New Latin (Linnaeus); Latin cārex sedge
Example Sentences
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She’s filled it with tough plants like yuccas, carex, hardy Geranium ‘Ann Folkard’, blue star juniper and Stipa gigantea.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2016
Now hellebores, carex, deer ferns, autumn ferns, hosta, blue fescue, bergenia and Scotch moss grow happily in the dappled shade.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2016
The ground was so matted with vegetation that their feet never touched the earth at all, they trampled on grasses, rushes, meadowsweet, and triangular fluted carex sedges.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
In the neighborhood of our Wisconsin farm there were extensive swamps consisting in great part of a thick sod of very tough carex roots covering thin, watery lakes of mud.
From The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by Muir, John
Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man, who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a carex, and visits doleful hells as a stratum of chalk or hornblende!
From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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