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Definition of Milk vetch

1. Noun. Any of various plants of the genus Astragalus.

Medical Definition of Milk vetch

1. A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats. The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Milk vetch

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

1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"Annual marit:me trailing milk vetch, with broad Leaves, arid the Flowers ... Ind. Annual trailing Milk- vetch, with purple Flowers growing in Chillers. 8. ..."

2. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"Ascending milk vetch. Throughout the state. AC Herb.: Medora 162, Valley City 163, Lisbon, ... Flexile milk vetch. AC Herb.: Valley City 170, Buffalo 1127. ..."

3. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"THE PROCUMBENT milk vetch. ENGRAVINGS.—Bot. Mag. t. 3263 ; and от fig. 5 in Plate 35. \ 11-14 pairs of elliptic, retuse leaflets; peduncles racemose, ..."

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