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PUERARIA LOBATA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pueraria lobata mean?
• PUERARIA LOBATA (noun)
The noun PUERARIA LOBATA 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: PUERARIA LOBATA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("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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