kyphosus sectatrix
- n food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
kudzu vine
- n fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States
kudu lily
- n South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics
kudzu
- n fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States
kuenlun
- n a mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles
kuenlun mountains
- n a mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles
kuhn
- n Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967)
kui
- n a member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India
- n the Dravidian language spoken by the Kui in southeastern India
kuiper
- n United States astronomer (born in the Netherlands) who studied the solar system and suggested in 1951 that there is a belt of comet-like debris at the edge of the solar system (1905-1973)
kuiper belt
- n a disk-shaped region of minor planets outside the orbit of Neptune
kuiper belt object
- n any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system