noun
1. herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building
• Syn: ↑Vicia sativa
• Hypernyms: ↑vetch
2. bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers
• Syn: ↑spring vetchling, ↑Lathyrus vernus
• Hypernyms: ↑vetchling
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lathyrus, ↑genus Lathyrus
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noun : a vetch (Vicia sativa)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.