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cyperus

cyperus noun: any sedge of genus Cyperus.

cyperus: any sedge of genus Cyperus
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Noun

cyperus (plural cyperuses)

  1. Any sedge of genus Cyperus.

cyperus meaning in Tamil, Sinhala and Arabic

cyperus in Tamil

காரைச் செடி

cyperus in Sinhala

Cyperus sp.
පං paṁ

cyperus in Arabic

Cyperus sp.
سُعْد suʕd

Synonyms of cyperus

Forms of cyperus

pluralcyperuses

Origin of cyperus

Borrowed from translingual Cyperus. Further from Latin cypērus and Ancient Greek κύπειρος (kúpeiros).

Questions about cyperus

What does cyperus mean?
Cyperus means any sedge of genus Cyperus.
What is cyperus in Tamil?
Cyperus in Tamil is காரைச் செடி. See Cyperus meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cyperus?
Cyperus is a noun.
What is the plural of cyperus?
The plural of cyperus is cyperuses.

Words near cyperus in the dictionary

  1. cypermethrin
  2. cyperographer
  3. cyperographers
  4. Cypert
  5. Cyperts
  6. cyperus
  7. cyperuses
  8. cyperusol
  9. cyphel
  10. cyphella
  11. cyphellaceous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyperus (page history and authors); cyperus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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