GENUS LESPEDEZA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Lespedeza mean? 

• GENUS LESPEDEZA (noun)
  The noun GENUS LESPEDEZA has 1 sense:

1. genus of shrubs or herbs of tropical Asia and Australia and the eastern United States

  Familiarity information: GENUS LESPEDEZA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS LESPEDEZA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of shrubs or herbs of tropical Asia and Australia and the eastern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)