genus eleocharis

English Thesaurus

1. sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths (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	:	spike rush,
definition	:	a sedge of the genus Eleocharis (noun.plant)

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