NOUN | plant | spring vetch, Vicia sativa | herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building |
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plant | spring vetch, spring vetchling, Lathyrus vernus | bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers |
Meaning | herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building. | |
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Synonym | Vicia sativa | |
Broader | vetch | Any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers |
Spanish | alverja, alverjana, arveja, veza | |
Catalan | veça, Vicia sativa |
Meaning | bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers. | |
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Synonyms | spring vetchling, Lathyrus vernus | |
Member of | Lathyrus, genus Lathyrus | genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America |
Broader | vetchling | Any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus |
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