LESPEDEZA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lespedeza mean? 

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

1. shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LESPEDEZA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bush clover; lespedeza

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

ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lespedeza"):

bicolor lespediza; ezo-yama-hagi; Lespedeza bicolor (Asian shrub having conspicuous racemose rose-purple flowers widely used as an ornamental and in erosion control and as a source of feed for wild birds)

jap clover; japan clover; japanese clover; Lespedeza striata (an annual of tropical Asia naturalized in United States)

Korean lespedeza; Lespedeza stipulacea (annual native to Korea but widely cultivated for forage and hay in hot dry regions)

Lespedeza cuneata; Lespedeza sericea; sericea lespedeza (perennial widely planted as for forage and as hay crop especially on poor land)

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

genus Lespedeza (genus of shrubs or herbs of tropical Asia and Australia and the eastern United States)