SPRING VETCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spring vetch mean? 

• SPRING VETCH (noun)
  The noun SPRING VETCH has 2 senses:

1. herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building

2. bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers

  Familiarity information: SPRING VETCH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPRING VETCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

spring vetch; Vicia sativa

Hypernyms ("spring vetch" is a kind of...):

vetch (any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lathyrus vernus; spring vetch; spring vetchling

Hypernyms ("spring vetch" is a kind of...):

vetchling (any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils)

Holonyms ("spring vetch" is a member of...):

genus Lathyrus; Lathyrus (genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild pea)