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GENUS PUERARIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of woody Asiatic vines: kudzu

Synonyms:

genus Pueraria; Pueraria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Pueraria" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pueraria"):

kudzu; kudzu vine; Pueraria lobata (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)

Holonyms ("genus Pueraria" is a member of...):

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

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