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HAIRY VETCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hairy vetch mean?
• HAIRY VETCH (noun)
The noun HAIRY VETCH has 1 sense:
1. European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
Familiarity information: HAIRY VETCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
hairy tare; hairy vetch; Vicia villosa
Hypernyms ("hairy vetch" is a kind of...):
tare (any of several weedy vetches grown for forage)
Holonyms ("hairy vetch" is a member of...):
genus Vicia; Vicia (widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs)
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