kudzu

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  1. noun An eastern Asian vine (Pueraria lobata) having compound leaves and clusters of reddish-purple flowers. It is grown for fodder, forage, and root starch, and is a widespread weed in the southeast United States.

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  • "This stuff has sprung up like kudzu," Barron said. —  The Times-Journal: News
  • The group pointedly didn't appear on its album covers or inner sleeves; instead, R.E.M. remained confident that a kudzu-covered ravine or a folk-art painting could speak more strongly about their music than their own presence ever could. —  Murmurs.com
  • John Leonard once wrote, "Pop nostalgia clings like a kudzu weed to everyone who ever grew up feeling alien-freaky-i. e., all of us who somehow knew we were born to die uncool." —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • First thought was that I didn't have the app in my path, but after searching the file system the kudzu-binary is simply not present on the system. —  LinuxQuestions.org
  • Science doesn't grow from some perfect original founder; it grows like kudzu, and you can't cut it off by attacking the first place it began. —  RealClimate
 

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