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Webster 1913 Edition

Cyperus

Cyp′e-rus

(s?p′?-r?s)

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Noun.

[NL., from Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] sedge.]

(Bot.)

A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus.