milk vetch

milk vetch Definition

milk vetch

noun

any of a genus (Astragalus) of plants of the pea family, with deeply cut leaves, flowers in spikes or racemes, and, usually, inflated pods

Etymology: from the notion that it increases the secretion of milk in goats

milk vetch Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

alpine: East and south Ben Vrackie has many plants concentrated round one fairly small crag - purple oxytropis, alpine milk vetch and scottish asphodel.

Modifies a noun

dwarf: Small virus-like particles containing single-stranded DNAs associated with milk vetch dwarf disease in Japan.

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