With distinguishing word: any of various plants of other genera related to vetches or thought to resemble a vetch in some way.

A name given to some species of vetch. Now, in general agricultural use, applied to the cultivated vetch, Vicia sativa, grown (often with oats…

Any of various leguminous plants, esp. of the genus Lathyrus; spec. L. sativus and L. cicera. Occasionally also: †the seed of such a plant (obsolete)…

(a) Chiefly regional. Any of several North American plants of the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae), mostly of a climbing or twining habit, including…

a spring-sown variety of cultivated vetch, Vicia sativa.

any of various leguminous plants of the genus Lathyrus, spec. L. sativus; the seed of this plant.

In South Asia: the chickling vetch (Lathyrus sativus). Also in plural.