[
US
/ˈkədzu/
]
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
How To Use kudzu In A Sentence
- In addition, kudzu ranked second-highest in terms of its potential impact on natural systems, because it is capable of overgrowing and decimating mature stands of trees.
- He's running what NPR's Frank James has characterized as a "kudzu campaign. NPR Topics: News
- People who live in areas of the southeastern United States where kudzu has overgrown everything have little good to say about this Japanese import.
- Today she uses kudzu paper to make more than 150 different notecard designs, each with a Native American story on the back.
- The kudzu is thick and green, the woods dark and full of secrets. Deep South: Summary and book reviews of Deep South by Nevada Barr.
- Kudzu is a leguminous annuals, thermophilic heat - resistant, drought - tolerant, adapt mountain grown.
- Originally, kudzu was promoted in the 1800s as an erosion control and cheap livestock forage for the eastern and southern United States.
- Of course, a plant could have too many survival skills - look at kudzu here in the South, for example.
- In the never-ending debate over the impact of non-native species, there are invaders many of us have come to accept and even revere (the ringneck pheasant, Huns, chukars) and there are invaders that are almost universally reviled (the snakehead, kudzu, zebra mussels, Texas Longhorn fans). Uncategorized Blog Posts
- The drive to Atlanta was long and tedious, with nothing but the occasional patch of trees with the requisite kudzu to break the monotony. BLINDSIGHTED
