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spring vetch

DEFINITIONS OF: spring vetch

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n herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building

Synonyms:
Vicia sativa
Type of:
vetch
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

n bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers

Synonyms:
Lathyrus vernus, spring vetchling
Type of:
vetchling
any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils
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