What is another word for vetch?

Pronunciation: [vˈɛt͡ʃ] (IPA)

Vetch is a type of legume that belongs to the pea family. It is known for its small, pea-like flowers and pods that contain seeds. This versatile plant is used in agriculture as a cover crop, pasture grass, and forage for livestock. However, in many regions, it is also consumed as a source of food. While the term "vetch" is widely recognized and used, there are other words that can be used to describe this plant. Some common synonyms for vetch include tare, fodder vetch, common vetch, and purple vetch. These terms are often used interchangeably with vetch and can be useful in expanding one's vocabulary when discussing this plant.

What are the hypernyms for Vetch?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Vetch?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for vetch (as nouns)

    • plant
      leguminous plant, legume.

What are the holonyms for Vetch?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.

Usage examples for Vetch

Another crop just introduced here is the vetch, better known as tares, for the same purpose.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
Under practical field conditions, humus may be added to soils by spreading animal manures, followed by plowing them down, or by the growing of heavy green crops such as wheat, rye, cowpeas or vetch and turning the entire mass under with the plow when they are at their height.
"A Living from the Land"
William B. Duryee
Every spot was covered with flowers, mostly of the vetch family.
"The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde""
George Davidson

Famous quotes with Vetch

  • Past the flannel plains and the blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the a.m. heat: shattercane, lamb’s-quarter, cutgrass, sawbrier, nutgrass, jimsonweed, wild mint, dandelion, foxtail, muscatine, spinecabbage, goldenrod, creeping charlie, butter-print, nightshade, ragweed, wild oat, vetch, butcher grass, invaginate volunteer beans, all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother’s soft hand on your cheek.
    David Foster Wallace

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