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Meaning of CAREX

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges
 
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 Synonyms: genus Carex
 
 See Also: Carex arenaria, Carex pseudocyperus, Cyperaceae, cypress sedge, family Cyperaceae, liliopsid genus, monocot genus, sand reed, sand sedge, sedge family

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ca"rex\, n. [L., sedge.] (Bot.)
A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial
herbaceous plants of the order {Cypreace[ae]}; the sedges.
 

 

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