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
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kudzu::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | kudzu vine, pueraria lobata |
| Type of | vine |
Examples of kudzu
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Wisteria has now become almost as invasive as kudzu in East Texas and Louisiana.
From the chron.com
Now the museum is fighting back, engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the kudzu.
From the charlotteobserver.com
For the US I had split the lengthy Kudzu in the United States article out kudzu.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He said when he first saw the kudzu growing he almost sprayed it with herbicide.
From the scienceblogs.com
Kudzu was introduced from Asia as a soil erosion plant more than a century ago.
From the sciencedaily.com
A handful of residents in Spartanburg, S.C., got together in 2004 to fight kudzu.
From the online.wsj.com
Perhaps because the limited damage done by kudzu is so immediately conspicuous.
From the al.com
It's corporations creeping like kudzu into the nooks and crannies of our lives.
From the sacbee.com
Jenkins said some native wasps also have laid their eggs inside kudzu bug eggs.
From the sacbee.com
- 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
- Kudzu was a daily comic strip created in May 1981 by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette about rural Southerners. The strip's name comes from the vine which, though initially encouraged as a soil erosion control plant, soon became an out-of control pest plant.
- Kudzu is a hardware probing daemon (written by Red Hat Linux) which relies on a library of hardware device information. When the computer boots, kudzu detects changes in the running system's hardware configuration, if any, and activates the newly-detected hardware (or removal of hardware). ...
- The Kudzu was a counterculture underground newspaper published in Jackson, Mississippi starting in September 1968., Chronicling America, Library of Congress, retrieved March 25, 2010. ...
- Red Hat Linux, assembled by the company Red Hat, was a popular Linux based operating system until its discontinuation in 2004.
- An Asian vine grown as a root starch
- (Pueraria lobata). Kudzu originates in China and Japan, and its common name is of Japanese origin. It grows wild in the grasslands of the Pacific Islands, and because all parts of the plant are edible, it was formerly important in the agriculture of India, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia. ...
- A vine, native to China and Japan but imported into the United States; originally planted for decoration, for forage, or as a ground cover to control erosion. It now grows wild in many parts of the southeastern United States.
- Also known as kuzu, is an edible vegetable in the same family as beans and peas, is of Asian origin, and is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
