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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Cyperus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A widely distributed perennial plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus rotundus, var. Hydra), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, edible, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A perennial sedge, Cyperus rotundus, that has small edible nutlike tubers

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
  • noun a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers

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