Carex [
'kæreks]
[医] 苔属
carex[ noun ]
large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges
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Carex \Ca"rex\, n. [L., sedge.] (Bot.)
A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial
herbaceous plants of the order {Cypreace[ae]}; the sedges.