ˈskēnəs noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek schoinos rush, reed
: a genus of stout sedges (family Cyperaceae) chiefly Australasian but including a few from Europe and the warm or tropical parts of No. America and having few-flowered spikelets in a spike or head, flowers without a perianth of bristles, and nutlets lacking a beak