lespedeza
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lespedeza
< New Latin (1803), after V. M. de Zespedez (misread as Lespedez ), 18th-century Spanish governor of East Florida
Example Sentences
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Worse still, lespedeza, a woody legume from Asia, had spread rapidly, filling lopped-off mountains with thickets of prickly, inedible stalks.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2020
Candidates include butterfly bush, asters, caryopteris, lespedeza and perovskia.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2015
Rival trainers unabashedly gawk when Morton and his pointers begin to hunt for quail in the South's winter-barren cornfields and amid the tufts of sedge and lespedeza.
From Time Magazine Archive
To help birds feed but escape predators, Webb has planted bicolor lespedeza and browntop millet food plots bordering thick cover.
From Time Magazine Archive
The peanut, a legume Aaron had no experience of beyond purchasing an occasional tooth-ful at the grocery-store, won half a dozen acres from Korean lespedeza, the crop he'd at first selected as his soil-improver there.
From Blind Man's Lantern by Schelling, George Luther
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