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definition
Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds
definition
Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae
Examples of vetch in a Sentence
Besides wheat, the following crops are to a greater or less extent cultivated - barley, millet, sesame, maize, beans, peas, lentils, kursenni (a species of vetch used as camel-food) and, in some parts of the country, tobacco.
The tendrils of a vetch and of a cucumber are analogous, and also homologous because they both belong to the category leaf; but they are only analogous to the tendrils of the vine and of the passion-flower, which belong to the category stem.
Besides the grasses there are leguminous plants valuable for pasture - Astragalus, Vicia (wild vetch), Lathyrus (wild pea) of which there are many species.
Some petioles are long, slender and sensitive to contact, and function as tendrils by means of which the plant climbs; as in the l,' nasturtiums (Tropaeolum), clematis and c in others; and in compound leaves the midrib and some of the leaflets may similarly be transformed into tendrils, as in the pea and vetch.
If these results are confirmed and the treatment can be worked commercially, the importance to agriculture of the discovery cannot be overestimated; each plant will provide, like the bean and vetch, its own nitrogenous manure, and larger crops will be produced at a decreased cost.
Dextro-asparagine was first found in 1886 in the shoots of the vetch (Piutti).
Both men are Swans' rejects - the latter departed the Vetch just three months ago.
We were able to see the salubrious surroundings of Swansea City's Vetch Field on a free transfer.
Alan Curtis steps up as caretaker boss at the Vetch.
Plants present in the grassland include pignut, harebell, kidney vetch and several orchids including greater butterfly orchid.
In the foreground on the ungrazed slopes, the dominant plant was Horseshoe Vetch, although a few cowslips were present.
Among the grass, underfoot, is thyme, the spiny rest harrow, yellow kidney vetch, and pale blue harebells.
East and south Ben Vrackie has many plants concentrated round one fairly small crag - purple oxytropis, Alpine milk vetch and scottish asphodel.
Bright blue milkwort and yellow Horseshoe Vetch bedecking the downland slopes.
The Vetch Field boss has revealed he still wants to make one more appointment - a chief scout.
Wood Whites visit a wide range of nectar sources including greater stitchwort, wood forget-me-not, birdsfoot trefoil, bitter vetch and bugle.
Report by Peter Talbot-Elsden 15 May 2005 A Kestrel and Crow simultaneously mobbed a stoat on the Horseshoe Vetch covered slopes of Mill Hill.
Swansea City chairman Steve Hamer was today dumped from office in a Vetch Field boardroom upheaval.
Rare species recorded for the site include wood vetch, toothwort, bird's-nest orchid and juniper.
Applied on fertility leys in the autumn before sowing vetch and before beans.
Phillips left the vetch in similar circumstances and joined ex-Swans assistant manager Peter Nicholas at Newport.
It has broader leaflets (to increase photosynthesis in shady conditions) than the tufted vetch.
The reserve is noted for its display of yellow horseshoe vetch in spring, visible for miles.
Locally dropwort and kidney vetch may be found, both species rare in the Dales.
The rare wood vetch grows on the side of the gorge and there is an old record for small cow wheat.
Small virus-like particles containing single-stranded DNAs associated with milk vetch dwarf disease in Japan.
Upon the exposed mountain slopes a species of rhubarb (Rheum Ribes) is noticeable, and also a vetch (Vicia canescens) excellent for sheep. The spring vegetation, which lasts until July, appears to be rich, especially as regards showy plants, such as Corydalis, Gagea, Colchicum, Puschkinia, Geranium, Ornithogalum, &c. The flora of the highest ridges, along the edges of the snow patches, exhibits no forms related to the northern alpine flora, but suggestions of it are found in a Draba, an Androsace, an Alsine and a violet, occurring, however, only in local species.
Bradley Maylett found himself being farmed out to the less salubrious surroundings of Swansea City 's Vetch Field on a free transfer.
Rushden boss Brian Talbot has a defensive headache for the season opener against Swansea at Vetch Field.
Report by Peter Talbot-Elsden 15 May 2005 A Kestrel and Crow simultaneously mobbed a Stoat on the Horseshoe Vetch covered slopes of Mill Hill.
Unusually there are tall herb ledges at low altitude with species such as wood vetch Vicia sylvatica and melancholy thistle Cirsium heterophyllum.
It has broader leaflets (to increase photosynthesis in shady conditions) than the Tufted vetch.
The unpaid bill put in by the police relates to four matches at Vetch field.
Phillips left the Vetch in similar circumstances and joined ex-Swans assistant manager Peter Nicholas at Newport.
Vetch Field chiefs are fuming about Sam Hammam 's intention to snub the competition from next season.
But the biggest Vetch crowd of the season could hardly go home complaining, even if Boston grabbed a late consolation through Jason Lee.
He was treated with fomentations made from leather bottles, and with heated vetch seeds over the whole body.
Vetch Field director of football Brian Flynn canceled the Twerton Park friendly on Monday afternoon because he could not field a goalkeeper.
Bitter Vetch (Orobus) - Often pretty plants of the Pea order, flowering usually in spring.
Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis Comosa) - A small prostrate British plant, with pretty little deep-yellow flowers, in coronilla-like crowns, the upper petal faintly veined with brown, the pinnate leaves small and leaflets smooth.
Milk Vetch (Astragalus) - A large family of alpine and perennial leguminous plants, not many of which are valuable for the garden.