Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An East Asian vine (Pueraria lobata) in the pea family, having compound leaves and clusters of reddish-purple flowers. It is grown for fodder, forage, and root starch, and is a widespread weed in the southeast United States.
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- noun An Asian
vine grown as a root starch and sometimes considered a noxious weed.
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- 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's a plant known as kudzu, which is widely hated in the south because it takes over cropland.
Archive 2010-02-15 Joe Konrath 2010
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Wrapped in kudzu and soaked in whiskey, his stories make me homesick, make me crave fried okra and sweetened ice tea.
March 2004 2004
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Wrapped in kudzu and soaked in whiskey, his stories make me homesick, make me crave fried okra and sweetened ice tea.
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Can you imagine how beautiful Mount Garcia (to say nothing of El Chante) would be covered in kudzu?
Lake Level 11-29-04 2004
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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. 2000
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"This is the first report investigating the potential for long-term kudzu supplementation to decrease these interacting factors of the metabolic syndrome in an animal model," stated the researchers.
NutraIngredients RSS 2009
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"This is the first report investigating the potential for long-term kudzu supplementation to decrease these interacting factors of the metabolic syndrome in an animal model," stated the researchers.
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He's running what NPR's Frank James has characterized as a "kudzu campaign."
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The second issue is what we've come to call kudzu: the spread of comment threads from a small number of commenters that are dozens of entries in length and thousands of words long.
Savage Minds 2010
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Google News keeps spreading as rapidly as kudzu - Image by SESConferenceSeries via Flickr Google News is like kudzu, which is known as "the vine that ate the South" because of its out-of-control growth in the Southeastern United States.
jeffazi commented on the word kudzu
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.
October 31, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word kudzu
Widespread? Widespread? Try COVERS THE REGION.
;)
By the way, skipvia, this really belongs on your Southern Words list: "watchin' the kudzu grow."
November 1, 2007
reesetee commented on the word kudzu
You can watch it grow. It's crazy stuff, that kudzu.
November 1, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word kudzu
I believe it's actually illegal to plant in some states.
November 2, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word kudzu
OH MY WORD, there are definitions on the word pages!!! Every time I take a day or two off, the place completely changes. Our little Wordie is growing up so fast.
November 2, 2007
pomegranate commented on the word kudzu
In the South, the forensic investigators can calculate time of death by the density of the kudzu on the corpse.
December 11, 2007
scete commented on the word kudzu
kudzua great metaphor for consumerism
December 5, 2008