vetch

Meaning

Noun

  • any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds
  • any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae

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  • garden vetch, common vetch, narrow-leaved vetch (Vicia sativa); American vetch, purple vetch, mat vetch (Vicia americana (species)); bitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia); tufted vetch (Vicia cracca (species)); bard vetch (Vicia articulata (species)); Bithynian vetch (Vicia bithynica (species)); Carolina wood vetch (Vicia caroliniana (species)); fodder vetch, hairy vetch, winter vetch (Vicia villosa (species)); bard vetch (Vicia articulata (species)); French vetch (Vicia serratifolia (species)); Hungarian vetch (Vicia pannonica (species)); Kashubian vetch (Vicia cassubica (species)); spring vetch (Vicia lathyroides (species)); yellow vetch (Vicia lutea (species)); Hawaiian vetch (Vicia menziesii (species)); pygmyflower vetch (Vicia minutiflora (species)); single-flowered vetch (Vicia monantha (species)); black vetch, giant vetch (Vicia nigricans (species)); upright vetch, wood bitter-vetch (Vicia orobus (species)); slender vetch (Vicia parviflora (species)); pea-flowered vetch (Vicia pisiformis (species)); bush vetch (Vicia sepium (species)); wood vetch (Vicia sylvatica (species)); fine-leaved vetch (Vicia tenuifolia (species)); smooth vetch (Vicia tetrasperma (species))

Origin

  • From Middle English vecche, fecche, ficche, from Old Northern French veche, variant of Old French vece, from Latin vicia. fitch#Etymology 2.

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