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Definition of Kudzu
1. Noun. 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.
Group relationships: Genus Pueraria, Pueraria
Generic synonyms: Vine
Definition of Kudzu
1. Noun. An Asian vine grown as a root starch. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kudzu
1. an Asian vine [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kudzu
| kuchcha kuchen kuchens kuda kudlik kudliks kudo kudos kudoses kudriavite | kudu kudu lily kuduro kuduru kudus kudzu (current term) kudzu vine kudzus kue kueh | kues kuffar kufi kufis kufiya kufiyah kufiyahs kufiyas kugel kugels |
Literary usage of Kudzu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"kudzu-kudzu, PLUCKING a fowl ; adv. of ... kudzu kudzu, pluck the fowl 80.
[It must bo kept distinct from ... kudzu are various derived forma. ..."
2. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"Under field conditions kudzu sends out long prostrate branches which root at many
of the joints and send up ascending twining branches to a height of 2 to 4 ..."
3. Our Country Home: How We Transformed a Wisconsin Woodland by Frances Kinsley Hutchinson (1908)
"In Jack and the Beanstalk too —without doubt the kudzu again ! ... The kudzu is
also like Antaeus, who every time he touched his Mother Earth gained new ..."
4. Environmental Progress and Challenges: EPA's Update by DIANE Publishing Company (1997)
"For example, the vine called "kudzu" was intentionally introduced in the southeastern
... Although kudzu is not the result of biotechnology, the kudzu story ..."
5. Truth and Consequences of the Genetic Revolution": Animal Pharm: Old edited by Lisa M. Matocq, Rachel Gibson (1996)
"The introductions of kudzu, zebra mussels, European starlings, ... kudzu and
European starlings were deliberately introduced, kudzu actually by USDA for the ..."
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