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Definition of Grass vetch

1. Noun. Annual European vetch with red flowers.

Literary usage of Grass vetch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1874)
"... the Crimson grass vetch (Lathyrus Nissolia) ; the Elegant St. John's-wort (Hypericum elegans) ; and the Heath- leaved Sun Bose i Hi ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Grass, Vetch. A book-name for Lathyrus Nissolia, L.—' A vetch with grassy leaves.' Prior, p. 97. Grass, Viper's. (1) An old name for Scorzonera ..."

3. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1831)
"The tussilago, rest-harrow, ox-eye, and docks, are most difficult to eradicate; the bindweed, s tic k ing-grass, vetch, and the yellow-flowering trailing ..."

4. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1813)
"grass vetch, iv. 305. Great Burnet, i. 258. Great Henbit, iii. 3p4. Greek Valerian, i. 342. Green-weed, iv. 259. Grey Millet, i. 287. Grim the Collier, iv. ..."

5. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"There are seven indigenous species of vetchling, or everlasting pea; the yellow vetchling (L. aphaca), the crimson vetchling or grass-vetch (Z. ..."

6. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"grass vetch. See LATHYRUS and TRITI- ( им. GRASS WALKS are made, for the most part, not by sowing grass seeds, but by laying turfs : and indeed the turfs ..."

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