rush family

English Thesaurus

1. tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes (noun.plant)

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

member holonym	:	rush,
definition	:	grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	genus juncus, juncus,
definition	:	type genus of the Juncaceae; perennial tufted glabrous marsh plants of temperate regions: rushes (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	liliales, order liliales,
definition	:	an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae (noun.plant)