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umbrella palm
Variant of umbrella plant
umbrella plant
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umbrella plant
a common, cultivated, aquatic sedge (Cyperus alternifolius) having naked, triangular stems surmounted by an umbrellalike whorl of grasslike leaves and greenish spikelets
also called umbrella palm
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