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Vicia sativa

Vicia sativa

8.4
A climbing plant like a pea that farmers grow for animal food and to improve soil
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • Farmers plant Vicia sativa to enrich the soil with nitrogen before sowing cereal crops.

Examples

  • The livestock graze eagerly on Vicia sativa during the spring months.

  • Research shows that Vicia sativa can increase crop yields when used in crop rotation.

  • Farmers often plant Vicia sativa to enhance soil quality.

  • The Vicia sativa crop yields a high amount of fodder.

  • Farmers plant Vicia sativa to enrich the soil with nitrogen before sowing cereal crops.

  • Research shows that Vicia sativa can increase crop yields when used in crop rotation.

  • The livestock graze eagerly on Vicia sativa during the spring months.

Synonyms

vetch
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  • Specialized
1 9.7

A climbing plant like a pea with small flowers used to feed animals and improve soil

is one annual climbing legume species grown especially for fodder

Surface Forms

Vicia sativa singular
Vicia sativas plural

Morphology

Vicia + sativa

The name is a botanical binomial combining the genus 'Vicia' (vetch) with the species epithet 'sativa' (cultivated), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes a cultivated vetch species used in agriculture. Binomial Latin names are compositional and cross-linguistically consistent, making the referent and basic meaning derivable from the parts even if the term is domain-specific.

Etymology

Vicia sativa comes from Latin. Vicia was the Latin word for vetch and sativa means 'sown', so the name shows it is a vetch people grow in fields to feed animals and improve the soil.