BEGGARWEED

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil

Synonyms:

beggarweed; Desmodium purpureum; Desmodium tortuosum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("beggarweed" is a kind of...):

beggar's lice; beggar lice; tick trefoil (any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments)

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