kudzu
pronunciation
How to pronounce kudzu in British English:
UK ['kʊdzu:]
How to pronounce kudzu in American English:
US ['kʊdzu]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- kudzu (n.)
- 1893, from Japanese kuzu. Perennial climbing plant native to Japan and China, introduced in U.S. southeast as forage (1920s) and to stop soil erosion (1930s) and quickly got out of hand.
Example
- 1. Yam kudzu tablets to treat diabetes ?
- 2. Kudzu , a vine that has rampaged across the american south , can grow one inch per hour .
- 3. Can eat root of kudzu vine movie during the cervical erosion being cured what .
- 4. The isoflavone of kudzu root in pueraia lobata was extracted by method of decompressing inner ebullition .
- 5. The pueraria powder , a kind of wild starch , processed with traditional technology and extracted through physical method , which raw material is the root of wild kudzu vine in qinba mountain area .