carex

WORDNET DICTIONARY

carex(n = noun.plant) genus carex - large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges;

is a kind of liliopsid genus, monocot genus

is a member of cyperaceae, family cyperaceae, sedge family

carex, n. [L., sedge.].

A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceæ; the sedges. [1913 Webster]