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VETCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vetch mean?
• VETCH (noun)
The noun VETCH has 1 sense:
1. any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants
Familiarity information: VETCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("vetch" is a kind of...):
legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vetch"):
tare (any of several weedy vetches grown for forage)
bird vetch; Calnada pea; tufted vetch; Vicia cracca (common perennial climber of temperate regions of Eurasia and North America having dense elongate clusters of flowers)
bitter betch; Vicia orobus (European perennial toxic vetch)
spring vetch; Vicia sativa (herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building)
bush vetch; Vicia sepium (European purple-flowered with slender stems; occurs as a weed in hedges)
Holonyms ("vetch" is a member of...):
genus Vicia; Vicia (widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs)
Context examples
The term is now applied in a general way to many other related plants such as soybeans, peas, lentils, kidney beans, chickpeas (garbanzos), vetches and lupins.
(Bean, NCI Thesaurus)
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