Definitions for vetches

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vetches vetch

Spelling: [vech]

IPA: /vɛtʃ/

Vetches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in vetches (ceehstv).

Definitions for vetches

noun

1. any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
2. any of various allied plants, as Lathyrus sativus, of Europe, cultivated for their edible seeds and for forage.
3. the beanlike seed or fruit of any such plant.

Origin of vetches

1325-75; Middle English ve(c)che Anglo-French; Old French vecce (French vesce) Latin vicia

Examples for vetches

vetch had dropped his musket at the Neck, and Bodenham and Cornelius were unarmed.

Mr. vetch declared his ignorance of this, and so they parted.

Summer vetch, although an equally good grower, is killed by freezing.

There is no better hay than oats and vetch cut in the dough stage.

Upon his return to Novgorod he had a dispute with the vetch, and he left the city.

After this, vetch had found his way to Boston, where he soon became prominent.

The same is true of the mallow, the vetch or tare, and other plants.

The hairy or winter vetch lives through the hard freezing winters.

vetch gives it to him, and in half an hour afterwards Cornelius is missing.

Every spot was covered with flowers, mostly of the vetch family.