vetches in English

noun
1
a widely distributed scrambling herbaceous plant of the pea family that is cultivated as a silage or fodder crop.
Buckwheat, mustard, rape, or fast-growing legumes, such as vetches or crimson clover, can be used.

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1. The wild strawberries, the wiry grasses, the black fruit of the vetches on the banks were all dear presences.

2. Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets:

3. 12.14 || || Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets. || || || || || || ||

4. All these plant communities, natural and man-made, include many types of papilionaceous plants: clovers (Trifolium), melilots (Melilothus), vetches (Vicia), medicks (Medicago), vetchlings (Lathyrus) and bird’s-foot trefoil (Lotus), the nectar of which contains a number of alkaloids, glycosides and essential oils.