PUERARIA LOBATA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States

Synonyms:

kudzu; kudzu vine; Pueraria lobata

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pueraria lobata" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Holonyms ("Pueraria lobata" is a member of...):

genus Pueraria; Pueraria (genus of woody Asiatic vines: kudzu)

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