cyperaceous

American  

[sahy-puh-rey-shuhs, sip-uh-] / ˌsaɪ pəˈreɪ ʃəs, ˌsɪp ə- /

adjective

1. belonging to the Cyperaceae, the sedge family of plants.

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cyperaceous British  

/ ˌsaɪpəˈreɪʃəs /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyperaceae, a family of grasslike flowering plants with solid triangular stems, including the sedges, bulrush, cotton grass, and certain rushes. Some are grown as water plants or as ornamental grasses; and Cyperus papyrus is the papyrus plant Compare juncaceous

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Etymology

Origin of cyperaceous

1850–55; < New Latin Cypēr ( us ) the typical genus ( Latin: kind of rush < Greek kýpeiros a marsh plant) + -aceous

Example Sentences

In such a site in the temperate zone, the cyperaceous and gramineous plants would have formed vast meadows; here the soil abounded in aquatic plants, with sagittate leaves, and especially in basil plants, among which we noticed the fine flowers of the costus, the thalia, and the heliconia.

From Project Gutenberg

Gramina and cyperaceous plants of Germany, Arabia, and Senegal, have been recognized among those that were gathered by M. Bonpland and myself on the cold table-lands of Mexico, along the burning shores of the Orinoco, and in the southern hemisphere on the Andes and Quito.*

From Project Gutenberg

Besides the plants above-mentioned, a beautiful blue Nymphaea was found growing in the lagoon; and around it, among the reeds and high cyperaceous plants, a small labiate, a Gomphrena, the native Chamomile, and a Bellis were growing.

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