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rush family

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noun

  1. the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.

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Luzula, lū′zū-l�, n. a genus of plants of the rush family, having plain leaves, covered with thinly scattered, longish hairs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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