desmodium tortuosum

1. 1.

   West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil

   SynonymsbeggarweedDesmodium purpureum

   Broadertick trefoil

Questions about desmodium tortuosum

What does desmodium tortuosum mean?

desmodium tortuosum means "West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil".

What is another word for desmodium tortuosum?

Close synonyms include beggarweed, Desmodium purpureum. 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 desmodium tortuosum a common word?

desmodium tortuosum 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.