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DESMODIUM TORTUOSUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Desmodium tortuosum mean? 

DESMODIUM TORTUOSUM (noun)
  The noun DESMODIUM TORTUOSUM has 1 sense:

1. West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soilplay

  Familiarity information: DESMODIUM TORTUOSUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DESMODIUM TORTUOSUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

beggarweed; Desmodium purpureum; Desmodium tortuosum

Hypernyms ("Desmodium tortuosum" 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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