Acrocystis
Translingual
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably Ancient Greek ἄκρος + κύστις”)
Proper noun
editAcrocystis
- A taxonomic section within the family Cyperaceae – Carex sect. Acrocystis.
Hypernyms
edit- (section in Carex): Poales - order; Cyperaceae - family; Cyperoideae - subfamily; Cariceae - tribe; Carex - genus
Hyponyms
edit- (section): Carex albicans (whitetinge sedge), Carex brainerdii (Brainerd's sedge), Carex brevicaulis (shortstem sedge), Carex communis (fibrousroot sedge), Carex deflexa (northern sedge), Carex floridana (Florida sedge), Carex geophila (White Mountain sedge), Carex globosa (roundfruit sedge), Carex inops (long-stolon sedge), Carex lucorum (Blue Ridge sedge), Carex nigromarginata (black-edge sedge), Carex novae-angliae (New England sedge), Carex peckii (Peck's sedge), Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge), Carex pityophila (loving sedge), Carex rossii (Ross's sedge), Carex serpenticola (serpentine sedge), Carex tonsa (shaved sedge), Carex turbinata (turban sedge), Carex umbellata (parasol sedge) - species