vetch

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The kidney-vetch, a long yellow claw of a flower that looks withered even at birth, may not deserve a prettier name, but at least it is possible to give it an ugly name with more interesting associations.

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  1. noun Any of various herbs of the genus Vicia, having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small, variously colored flowers.

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  • He hoped the demons could not see him crouched there in the vetch, though he knew perfectly well they could. —  The Cosmic Rape
  • This odd square end of the light beam pressed outward from the ship until it reached the margin of vetch, and nosed into it. —  The Cosmic Rape
  • It just went on collecting and processing astralagus vetch, a weed with a high affinity for selenium. —  The Cosmic Rape
  • : Peirson's milk-vetch, Riverside fairy shrimp, San Bernardino bluegrass, and San Diego fairy shrimp. —  YubaNet.com
  • Some are too much engaged in the quest to notice the brilliant flowers which at another time would have engrossed all their thoughts; whilst others, wreathed round with the bright blue wood-vetch, the shining broad-leaved bryony, and the rose and honeysuckle, will have to lay down the large handfuls of flowers with which they have encumbered themselves, before they can share in the enjoyment of collecting the fragrant berries. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852
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  1. Middle English vetche, from Old North French veche, from Latin vicia; see weik-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also fitch, fetch (?) (see fitch); from Middle English veche, also feche, ficche, from Old French veche, vesse, later vesce, French vesce = Spanish veza = Italian vezza, veccia = Old High German wiccha, Middle High German G. wicke = Dutch wikke = Swedish vicker = Danish vikke, from Latin vicia, vetch, = Greek βικίον, vetch; akin to vincia, vinca, pervinca (see periwinkle), from vincire (√ vic), bind; cf. bind = Latin vitis, a vine, vimen, a pliant twig, from vi, bind: see vitis, vine, withy.
 

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