vetch
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9.7
- noun
- /vɛtʃ/
- Specialized
:
veza
- The organisms were less affected by runoff from plots mulched with hairy vetch.
- hairy vetch
- vetch mulch
Examples
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Their data show that the plastic sheets allowed 10 times more runoff than vetch after the first storm of the 1997 tomato season—and twice as much in the following dozen storms.
Academic text (1999) -
Hopefully, the vetch will provide the broccoli with extra nitrogen.
Blog text (12) -
I'll take my plant press; maybe I can find some crown vetch.
Fiction book (1992) -
Now, Harry Vetch is like a tall, stringy plant.
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An experiment: Broccoli undersown with vetch.
Blog text (12) -
The alternative method uses hairy vetch residue as an organic mulch.
Academic text (1999) -
I mean, there's a weed called vetch that's commonly in lentil fields and it has a seed.
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It contains snow peas, hairy vetch, winter rye, and white, white Dutch Clover.
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We were driving south from Greenville, where we both lived, on a lush spring day in 1948, with primroses and vetch awash along the ditch banks, and bean and cotton rows whirling by, green spokes in the dark, flat disk of the Delta.
Fiction book (1996) -
Farmers often plant vetch as a cover crop to improve soil quality.
Synonyms
A group of plants in the pea family that are often grown for animal food
Compounds
A climbing plant with dense groups of purple-blue flowers often found in fields and gardens
- UK
A European climbing plant with thin stems and purple flowers often growing as a weed in hedges
- Specialized
A plant with pink and white flowers that spreads to cover soil and prevent erosion
- Specialized
A small plant with purple flowers that grows every year on high mountain slopes
- UK
A plant that lives for many years with round heads of yellow or red flowers in meadows
A small wild plant that flowers every year with yellow flower clusters and pods shaped like small horseshoes
- US
A long-lived western United States plant with pink to purple flowers and flat pods that split into round pieces
- UK
A climbing or bushy plant with purple-blue flowers grown to feed animals and make soil richer
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word vetch comes from the old Latin plant name vicia, which passed into English long ago. These plants are in the same family as the common pea, so a vetch is a pea-like climbing plant often grown for animal food and to improve the soil.