vetch

1. 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 (synset 112595827)
   is a type of: legume, leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
   subtypes:

   • tare - any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
   • bird vetch, calnada pea, tufted vetch, vicia cracca - common perennial climber of temperate regions of Eurasia and North America having dense elongate clusters of flowers
   • bitter betch, vicia orobus - European perennial toxic vetch
   • spring vetch, vicia sativa - herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building
   • bush vetch, vicia sepium - European purple-flowered with slender stems; occurs as a weed in hedges
   belongs to: genus vicia, vicia - widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs

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