carex Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges
    genus Carex.

WordNet


Ca"rex noun
Etymology
L., sedge.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceæ; the sedges.

Webster 1913