Carex is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 48 anagrams from letters in Carex (acerx).
New Latin (Linnaeus); Latin cārex sedge
It is not a grass but a sedge (carex glauca or C. panicea) with leaves rather like those of a carnation.
Wigand, 'Flora,' 1856, mentions a similar change in carex glauca.
I met with a carex, bearing round capsules, full of black powder.
The natives cultivate, in the lagune of Chalco, a sort of carex called tout, on which the insects readily deposit their eggs.
On carex glauca and other sedges, eating down the stems close to the roots.
We found there a curious black-headed grass which proved to be of the carex genus.
The sedges (carex) dry and colour well, as also several of the water-rushes, reeds, and flags.
Inside the “finsko” we used, at the beginning of our journey, this “sennegraes” (carex æsicaria), of which we had taken a supply.
In the more damp and marshy places the bottom is covered with marsh trefoil, carex, smooth equisetum, and rush.
There are forty-six kinds of sedge (carex), or if the Scirpus tribe be added, sixty-one, found in our islands.