'Carex' definitions:
Definition of 'Carex'
(from WordNet)
noun
Large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges [syn: Carex, genus Carex]
Definition of 'Carex'
From: GCIDE
- Carex \Ca"rex\, n. [L., sedge.] (Bot.) A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreace[ae]; the sedges. [1913 Webster]