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Definition of Desmodium purpureum
1. Noun. West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil.
Exact synonyms: Beggarweed, Desmodium Tortuosum
Generic synonyms: Beggar Lice, Beggar's Lice, Tick Trefoil
Generic synonyms: Beggar Lice, Beggar's Lice, Tick Trefoil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desmodium Purpureum
Literary usage of Desmodium purpureum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Races of Man: And Their Geographical Distribution by Charles Pickering, John Charles Hall (1854)
"desmodium purpureum, a weed in neglected clearings : as also at the more western
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