genus lespedeza
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1. genus of shrubs or herbs of tropical Asia and Australia and the eastern United States (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | rosid dicot genus, |
| definition | : | a genus of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | bush clover, lespedeza, |
| definition | : | shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | bicolor lespediza, ezo-yama-hagi, lespedeza bicolor, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | jap clover, japan clover, japanese clover, lespedeza striata, |
| definition | : | an annual of tropical Asia naturalized in United States (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | korean lespedeza, lespedeza stipulacea, |
| definition | : | annual native to Korea but widely cultivated for forage and hay in hot dry regions (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | lespedeza cuneata, lespedeza sericea, sericea lespedeza, |
| definition | : | perennial widely planted as for forage and as hay crop especially on poor land (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae, |
| definition | : | alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae (noun.plant) |
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