Lathyrus pratensis
- noun
- Specialized
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Lathyrus pratensis
- The bright yellow flowers of Lathyrus pratensis appear from May to August.
Examples
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Farmers sometimes grow Lathyrus pratensis as a forage crop for livestock.
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Lathyrus pratensis is often found in meadows and grassy places across Europe.
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The Lathyrus pratensis is often found in meadows.
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Farmers cultivate Lathyrus pratensis for its forage value.
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Lathyrus pratensis is commonly cultivated for its nutritious forage in pastures.
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Many local farmers grow Lathyrus pratensis due to its ability to improve soil quality.
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During the summer, the fields are filled with the yellow blooms of Lathyrus pratensis, attracting various pollinators.
Synonyms
A climbing plant like a pea with small yellow flowers used for animal feed
A small wild plant with yellow flowers that farmers grow for animal feed
A wild pea plant with yellow flowers and flat seed pods often grown for animal food
Surface Forms
Morphology
Lathyrus + pratensis
This is a scientific Latin binomial rather than a conventional English collocation: the second constituent 'pratensis' is not an English word (missing from the dictionary) and the first is a taxonomic genus. Even if a learner recognised 'Lathyrus' as a pea genus, understanding the full meaning requires botanical/Latin knowledge (e.g. 'of the meadow'), so the sense is not transparently derivable for an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Lathyrus pratensis comes from words that mean a 'pea' and 'of the meadow': Lathyrus refers to a pea plant and pratensis means 'of the meadow'. So the name paints the picture of a meadow pea, a wild pea that grows in grassy fields and is often used as food for farm animals.
