spring vetch

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Noun	1.	spring vetch - herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-buildingVicia sativavetch - any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants
	2.	spring vetch - bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowersLathyrus vernus, spring vetchlinggenus Lathyrus, Lathyrus - genus of climbing herbs of Old World and temperate North and South America: vetchling; wild peavetchling - any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils