sedge family

American  

noun

1. the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.

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Example Sentences

The university on Monday said that some of Gordon Tucker’s colleagues discovered the new member of the sedge family and decided to name it after him because he provided the expertise to confirm the discovery.

From Washington Times