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Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

A coarse grass growing in wet places or swamps.

A kind of flag or coarse grass growing in swamps and rivers.

Kind of grass with pithy stem.

A coarse rush like herb growing in a wet place.

A coarse grass growing in swamps.

The water-iris or river-flag; an extensive genus of flag-leaved plants, found growing in wet grounds and on the banks of rivers in the north temperate regions of the globe.

n. [Anglo Saxon, Irish , Welsh ] A plant growing in dense tufts, generally in wet grounds, allied to the grasses, but distinguished by having no joints in the stems.