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PUERARIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pueraria mean?
• PUERARIA (noun)
The noun PUERARIA has 1 sense:
1. genus of woody Asiatic vines: kudzu
Familiarity information: PUERARIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of woody Asiatic vines: kudzu
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Pueraria; Pueraria
Hypernyms ("Pueraria" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("Pueraria" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
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