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adjective
belonging to the Cyperaceae, the sedge family of plants.
Compare sedge family.
Origin:
1850–55; < Neo-Latin Cypēr(us) the typical genus (Latin: kind of rush < Greek kýpeiros a marsh plant) + -aceous
1850–55; < Neo-Latin Cypēr(us) the typical genus (Latin: kind of rush < Greek kýpeiros a marsh plant) + -aceous
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Cyperaceous
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| cyperaceous (ˌsaɪpəˈreɪʃəs) | |
| —adj | |
| Compare juncaceous 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 | |
| [C19: from New Latin Cypērus type genus, from Latin cypēros a kind of rush, from Greek kupeiros marsh plant, probably of Semitic origin] | |
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