sedge vs umbrella plant

umbrella plant vs sedge

sedge and umbrella plant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sedge	Yes	No	No	No
umbrella plant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, umbrella plant is a hyponym of sedge; that is, umbrella plant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sedge:

sedge: grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
umbrella plant: African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves

Other hyponyms of sedge include Cyperus alternifolius, umbrella sedge, chufa, Cyperus esculentus, earth almond, ground almond, rush nut, yellow nutgrass, Cyperus longus, galangal, galingale, Cyperus papyrus, Egyptian paper reed, Egyptian paper rush, paper plant, paper rush, papyrus, Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass, nutsedge, Carex arenaria, sand reed, sand sedge, Carex pseudocyperus, cypress sedge, cotton grass, cotton rush, hardstem bulrush, hardstemmed bulrush, Scirpus acutus, Scirpus cyperinus, wool grass, spike rush.

sedge (noun)	umbrella plant (noun)
grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers	rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the Sierra Nevada in California
	African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
	late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters

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