cyperus esculentus

Questions about cyperus esculentus

What does cyperus esculentus mean?

cyperus esculentus means "European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers".

What is another word for cyperus esculentus?

Close synonyms include chufa, yellow nutgrass, earth almond, ground almond, rush nut. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cyperus esculentus a common word?

cyperus esculentus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.