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
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
We found there a curious black-headed grass which proved to be of the carex genus.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Thomas Mitchell
They are planted with several species of carex, and have their margins diversified with robust flowering plants such as veratrum, larkspur, lupine, etc.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
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