spring vetch

English Thesaurus

1. bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	vetchling,
definition	:	any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus lathyrus, lathyrus,
definition	:	genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild pea (noun.plant)

2. herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	vetch,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)