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GENUS LESPEDEZA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of shrubs or herbs of tropical Asia and Australia and the eastern United States
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Lespedeza" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Lespedeza"):
bush clover; lespedeza (shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States)
bicolor lespediza; ezo-yama-hagi; Lespedeza bicolor (Asian shrub having conspicuous racemose rose-purple flowers widely used as an ornamental and in erosion control and as a source of feed for wild birds)
jap clover; japan clover; japanese clover; Lespedeza striata (an annual of tropical Asia naturalized in United States)
Korean lespedeza; Lespedeza stipulacea (annual native to Korea but widely cultivated for forage and hay in hot dry regions)
Lespedeza cuneata; Lespedeza sericea; sericea lespedeza (perennial widely planted as for forage and as hay crop especially on poor land)
Holonyms ("genus Lespedeza" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
