| 释义 |
kudzu /ˈkʊdzuː /(also kudzu vine) nounA quick-growing East Asian climbing plant with reddish-purple flowers, used as a fodder crop and for erosion control.- Pueraria lobata, family Leguminosae.
The scrub that borders the tracks is overgrown with kudzu, an imported plant that strangles the natives....- This is a lesson that Southern farmers would have done well to remember when they were planting kudzu in the thirties.
- Of course, a plant could have too many survival skills - look at kudzu here in the South, for example.
Origin Late 19th century: from Japanese kuzu. |