vetch : Idioms & Phrases

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alpine milk vetch

  • noun perennial of mountainous areas of Eurasia and North America
    Astragalus alpinus.
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bird vetch

  • noun common perennial climber of temperate regions of Eurasia and North America having dense elongate clusters of flowers
    Vicia cracca; Calnada pea; bird vetch.
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Bitter vetch

  • (Bot.), a name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Orobus and Ervum Ervilia.
Webster 1913

bush vetch

  • noun European purple-flowered with slender stems; occurs as a weed in hedges
    Vicia sepium.
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crown vetch

  • noun European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods
    Coronilla varia; axseed.
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Grass vetch

  • noun annual European vetch with red flowers
    Lathyrus nissolia; grass vetchling.
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  • (Bot.), a vetch (Lathyrus Nissolia), with narrow grasslike leaves.
Webster 1913

hairy vetch

  • noun European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
    hairy tare; Vicia villosa.
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Horse vetch

  • (Bot.), a plant of the genus Hippocrepis (H. comosa), cultivated for the beauty of its flowers; called also horsehoe vetch, from the peculiar shape of its pods.
Webster 1913

horseshoe vetch

  • noun European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints
    Hippocrepis comosa.
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Kidney vetch

  • noun perennial Eurasian herb having heads of red or yellow flowers and common in meadows and pastures; formerly used medicinally for kidney disorders
    Anthyllis vulneraria.
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  • (Bot.), a leguminous herb of Europe and Asia (Anthyllis vulneraria), with cloverlike heads of red or yellow flowers, once used as a remedy for renal disorders, and also to stop the flow of blood from wounds; lady's-fingers.
Webster 1913

milk vetch

  • noun any of various plants of the genus Astragalus
    milk vetch.
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  1. (Bot.) A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats. ✍ The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere.
Webster 1913

milk-vetch

  • noun any of various plants of the genus Astragalus
    milk vetch.
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purple milk vetch

  • noun perennial of southern and western Europe having dense racemes of purple or violet flowers
    Astragalus danicus.
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Sensitive joint vetch

  • (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb (Æschynomene hispida), with sensitive foliage.
Webster 1913

spring vetch

  • noun herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building
    Vicia sativa.
  • noun bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers
    spring vetchling; Lathyrus vernus.
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sweet vetch

  • noun perennial of western United States having racemes of pink to purple flowers followed by flat pods that separate into nearly orbicular joints
    Hedysarum boreale.
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tuberous vetch

  • noun European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey
    earth-nut pea; earthnut pea; heath pea; Lathyrus tuberosus.
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tufted vetch

  • noun common perennial climber of temperate regions of Eurasia and North America having dense elongate clusters of flowers
    Vicia cracca; Calnada pea; bird vetch.
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