Definition of Lathyrus sativus

1. Noun. European annual grown for forage; seeds used for food in India and for stock elsewhere.

Exact synonyms: Grass Pea, Indian Pea, Khesari
Group relationships: Genus Lathyrus, Lathyrus
Generic synonyms: Vetchling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lathyrus Sativus

Lateran Council
Lateran Palace
Lateran Treaty
Latgalian
Latgalians
Lathyrus
Lathyrus hirsutus
Lathyrus japonicus
Lathyrus latifolius
Lathyrus maritimus
Lathyrus niger
Lathyrus nissolia
Lathyrus odoratus
Lathyrus palustris
Lathyrus pratensis
Lathyrus sativus
Lathyrus splendens
Lathyrus sylvestris
Lathyrus tuberosus
Lathyrus vernus
Latian
Latic
Latimeria
Latimeria chalumnae
Latimeridae
Latin
Latin-American
Latin-American Spanish
Latin America
Latin American

Literary usage of Lathyrus sativus

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

1. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"GRASS-PEA (lathyrus sativus) 546. The grass-pea, vetchling or chickling vetch, is native to the Mediterranean region eastward to central Asia. ..."

2. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"GRASS-PEA (lathyrus sativus) 546. The grass-pea, vetchling or chickling vetch, is native to the Mediterranean region eastward to central Asia. ..."

3. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1897)
"Louden thus describes the lathyrus sativus, chickling vetch. A deciduous climber, annual. ... The lathyrus sativus is known by the French names of la gesse ..."

4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1860)
"Notice of a Form of Paralysis of the Lower Extremities, extensively prevailing in part of the District of Allahabad, produced by the use of lathyrus sativus ..."

5. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anschutz (1917)
"... size until it completely disappeared, and at the present time over five years have passed with no return of the trouble. lathyrus sativus NATURAL ..."

6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1860)
"... of tlie Lower Extremities, extensively prevailing in part of the District of Allahabad, produced by the use of lathyrus sativus as an Article of Food. ..."

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