KUDZU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kudzu mean? 

• KUDZU (noun)
  The noun KUDZU has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: KUDZU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KUDZU (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

kudzu; kudzu vine; Pueraria lobata

Hypernyms ("kudzu" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("kudzu" is a member of...):

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