RUSH FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does rush family mean? • RUSH FAMILY (noun)
The noun RUSH FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes
Familiarity information: RUSH FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• RUSH FAMILY (noun)
Meaning:
Tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Juncaceae; Juncaceae; rush family
Hypernyms ("rush family" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "rush family"):
rush (grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems)
genus Juncus; Juncus (type genus of the Juncaceae; perennial tufted glabrous marsh plants of temperate regions: rushes)
Holonyms ("rush family" is a member of...):
Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)
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