junco

Definitions of junco
  1. noun
    grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems
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    espadaña
    tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America
  2. noun
    grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
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    chufa
    European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
    papiro
    tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
    algodonosa
    any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes
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