vetch
vetch
Definition
vetch (vec̸h)
noun
any of a number of leafy, climbing or trailing plants (esp. genus Vicia) of the pea family, grown chiefly for fodder and as a green manure
Etymology: ME feche, veche < NormFr veche < L vicia, vetch < IE *weik- (< base *wei-, to bend > weak)
vetch
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: Rare species recorded for the site include wood vetch, toothwort, bird's-nest orchid and juniper.
- sow: Applied on fertility leys in the autumn before sowing vetch and before beans.
- leave: Phillips left the Vetch in similar circumstances and joined ex-Swans assistant manager Peter Nicholas at Newport.
Adjective modifier
- tufted: It has broader leaflets ( to increase photosynthesis in shady conditions ) than the Tufted vetch.
- bitter: Wood Whites visit a wide range of nectar sources including greater stitchwort, wood forget-me-not, birdsfoot trefoil, bitter vetch and bugle.
- purple: And then there are the purple blue vetches that are a pleasure to the eye at this time of year.
- bush: I still haven't quite decided ) and, throwing a tendril out to the bluebell, bush vetch.
- yellow: The reserve is noted for its display of yellow horseshoe vetch in spring, visible for miles.
- various: It is whitish in color, and laid singly on the underside of leaves of various vetches and trefoils.
Modifies a noun
- crop: Drilled a vetch crop then summer fallowed the land.
- field: Vetch Field chiefs are fuming about Sam Hammam's intention to snub the competition from next season.
- crowd: But the biggest Vetch crowd of the season could hardly go home complaining, even if Boston grabbed a late consolation through Jason Lee.
- seed: He was treated with fomentations made from leather bottles, and with heated vetch seeds over the whole body.
- director: Vetch Field director of football Brian Flynn canceled the Twerton Park friendly on Monday afternoon because he could not field a goalkeeper.
Noun used with modifier
- horseshoe: The reserve is noted for its display of yellow horseshoe vetch in spring, visible for miles.
- kidney: Locally dropwort and kidney vetch may be found, both species rare in the Dales.
- wood: The rare wood vetch grows on the side of the gorge and there is an old record for small cow wheat.
- milk: Small virus-like particles containing single-stranded DNAs associated with milk vetch dwarf disease in Japan.
- winter: Winter vetches are up in some places, and look very well.
