Meanings
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noun
a twining leguminous plant of the genus Vicia or a related genus, often grown for fodder, seed, or green manure
The farmer sowed vetch as a winter cover crop to enrich the soil.
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Etymology
From Middle English vecche or fecche, through Old Northern French veche from Latin vicia, the plant name. The related English form fitch is a doublet inherited through a different sound development.