genus scirpus

English Thesaurus

1. rhizomatous perennial grasslike herbs (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	liliopsid genus, monocot genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	hardstem bulrush, hardstemmed bulrush, scirpus acutus,
definition	:	widely distributed North American sedge having rigid olive green stems (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	scirpus cyperinus, wool grass,
definition	:	sedge of eastern North America having numerous clustered woolly spikelets (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	cyperaceae, family cyperaceae, sedge family,
definition	:	bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant (noun.plant)