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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of monocotyledonous plants, of the order Cyperacæ, the sedge family, and of the tribe Rhyncosporeæ, characterized by few-flowered spikelets in dark or blackish clusters which are often panicled or aggregated into a head or spike.
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