vetch
English Thesaurus
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 (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | legume, leguminous plant, |
| definition | : | an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | tare, |
| definition | : | any of several weedy vetches grown for forage (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | spring vetch, vicia sativa, |
| definition | : | herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bush vetch, vicia sepium, |
| definition | : | European purple-flowered with slender stems; occurs as a weed in hedges (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus vicia, vicia, |
| definition | : | widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs (noun.plant) |
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