单词 | pebble-vetch |
释义 | > as lemmaspebble-vetch ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > cultivated vetch vetchc1400 tare1482 chickling1548 peavine1675 pebble-vetch1677 chickling pea1731 mattar1884 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxfordshire 240 When..they sow Peas on [Clay] Land, the best husbandman will chuse the Vale-gray as most proper for it; and if Vetches, the Gore or Pebble-vetch. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 125 The pebble-vetch is a summer-vetch, different from the goar-vetch and not so big; they call it also the rath-ripe vetch. 1763 J. Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. I. 475 The small black-seeded vetch, which some call rathripe, and others pebble, or summer vetch. < as lemmas |
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