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graminée à tubercules [1 record]

Record 1 1984-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
DEF

Any of several aggressively weedy sedges of the genus Cyperus, esp. a perennial sedge (C. rotundus) of wide distribution having slender rootstocks that bear small edible nutlike tubers. (2) Any of several American sedges of the genus Scleria.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)

Spanish

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