kudzu

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English - Turkish
{i} japonsarmaşığı

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kudzu vine
(Botanik, Bitkibilim) japonsarmaşığı
English - English
a white starchy powder made from the root of the kudzu plant; used for thickening soups, sauces, and puddings
fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long many-seed hairy pods and tuberous starchy roots; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States
An Asian vine grown as a root starch
{i} kudzu vine, fast growing vine of the legume family
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

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kudzu vine
Fast-growing, twining, perennial, woody vine (Pueraria lobata, or P. thunbergiana) belonging to the pea family (see legume). Transplanted from its native China and Japan to North America in the 1870s as an attractive ornamental that could be planted on steep soil banks to prevent erosion, kudzu has become a rampant weed in much of the southeastern U.S, where it readily spreads to form great canopies over trees, shrubs, and exposed soil. Roots survive even northern winters, and the hairy vine grows to a length of 60 ft (18 m) in one season. It has large leaves, late-blooming reddish-purple flowers, and flat, hairy seedpods. In its native range kudzu is grown for its edible, starchy roots and for a fiber made from its stems. It is also useful as a fodder or cover crop
kudzu vine
species of climbing vine that originated in China and Japan (now widely cultivated in the United States for fodder, fiber, and as a means of preventing erosion)
kudzu

    Hyphenation

    kud·zu

    Turkish pronunciation

    kʌdzu

    Pronunciation

    /ˈkədzo͞o/ /ˈkʌdzuː/

    Etymology

    [ 'kud-(")zü, 'k&d- ] (noun.) 1876. Japanese kuzu.
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