Scleria

Translingual

Etymology

Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard, stiff, cruel”) or Ancient Greek σκληρία (sklēría, “hardness”), in reference to the hard seeds or in reference to the use of bundles of the plant to whip slaves in Surinam.

Proper noun

Scleria f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cyperaceae – the nutrushes. [from 1765]

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