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nounany 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 plantstype of:
Definition that contains vetch
- tare any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
- grass vetch annual European vetch with red flowers
- axseed European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods
- hippocrepis species of Old World herbs or subshrubs: horseshoe vetch
- vicia orobus European perennial toxic vetch
- crown vetch European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods
- grass vetchling annual European vetch with red flowers
- lathyrus genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild pea
- vicia villosa European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
- genus hippocrepis species of Old World herbs or subshrubs: horseshoe vetch