“Colorado River”

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Colorado River hemp

noun

: a tall-growing annual legume (Sesbania exaltata) of the southwestern U.S. that produces a strong tough bast fiber formerly used by American Indians for cordage and that is widely used as a green manure especially on heavy moist soils


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