vetch

Meanings

1. 1
   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.

Common collocations

• milk vetch Noun + noun

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.

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