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cyperaceous

[ sahy-puh-rey-shuhs, sip-uh- ]

adjective

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


cyperaceous

/ 藢蝉补瑟辫蓹藞谤别瑟蕛蓹蝉 /

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
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of cyperaceous1

1850鈥55; < New Latin 颁测辫脓谤 ( us ) the typical genus ( Latin: kind of rush < Greek 办媒辫别颈谤辞蝉 a marsh plant) + -aceous
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of cyperaceous1

C19: from New Latin 颁测辫脓谤us type genus, from Latin 肠测辫脓谤辞蝉 a kind of rush, from Greek kupeiros marsh plant, probably of Semitic origin
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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.

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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.*

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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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