mile-a-minute
Meanings
noun
- Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.
- Asiatic tearthumb, kudzu of the North (Persicaria perfoliata), native to eastern Asia, introduced to northeastern US.
- Kudzu (Pueraria lobata; Pueraria montana var. lobata), native to eastern Asia, highly invasive elsewhere.
- mile-a-minute vine (Ipomoea cairica), native from tropical Africa to the Mediterranean, invasive elsewhere.
- Mikania micrantha, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas.
- Russian vine (Fallopia baldschuanica), native to central Asia, widely naturalized.
- Okie bean (Dipogon lignosus), native to South Africa, introduced elsewhere.
adj
- At the rate of one mile per minute; sixty miles per hour.
adv
- Very fast.
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