(n)African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves, Syn.umbrella sedge, Cyperus alternifolius
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n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; sedge. ] (Bot.) A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family, and including the species called galingale, several bulrushes, and the Egyptian papyrus. [ 1913 Webster ]