Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun desmodium_purpureum

1 sense of desmodium purpureum

Sense 1
beggarweed, Desmodium tortuosum, Desmodium purpureum -- (West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil)
       => tick trefoil, beggar lice, beggar's lice -- (any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments)