Japanese knotweed

noun

1. Mexican bamboo.

Example Sentences

The Money squad discusses the Chase infinite money TikTok craze, the “founder mode” craze, and the menace of Japanese knotweed.

From Slate

And what’s Japanese knotweed, and why is it destroying Elizabeth’s house?

From Slate

Dr. Robert C. Venette, a research biologist and director of the Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center, is paying close attention to multiple invasive species, including "several bark beetles, emerald ash borer, spotted lanternfly, hemlock wooly adelgid, oak wilt, Palmer amaranth and Japanese knotweed, among others."

From Salon

Alien species are living things transported around the world by humans into places they wouldn't naturally be, from Japanese knotweed to the fungus that kills ash trees.

From BBC

"This case is about the role played by diminution in value in cases of nuisance involving the plant Japanese knotweed," said Lord Justice Birss.

From BBC