colorado river hemp

1. 1.

   tall-growing annual of southwestern United States widely grown as green manure; yields a strong tough bast fiber formerly used by Indians for cordage

   SynonymsSesbania exaltata

   Broadersesbania

Questions about colorado river hemp

What does colorado river hemp mean?

colorado river hemp means "tall-growing annual of southwestern United States widely grown as green manure; yields a strong tough bast fiber formerly used by Indians for cordage".

What is another word for colorado river hemp?

Close synonyms include Sesbania exaltata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is colorado river hemp a common word?

colorado river hemp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.