Vicia

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Noun

Vicia - widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbsgenus Viciarosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plantsPapilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceaevetch - 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 plantstare - any of several weedy vetches grown for foragebroad-bean, broad-bean plant, English bean, European bean, field bean, Vicia faba, broad bean - Old World upright plant grown especially for its large flat edible seeds but also as fodderhairy tare, hairy vetch, Vicia villosa - European vetch much cultivated as forage and cover crops

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вика

Vicia

vetch

There are edible kinds like Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa), Bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia), and toxic kinds like Crown vetch (Securigera varia) which has flowers that look like clover that can slow the pulse and even cause death. Vetch leaves all have the trademark little thin leaves sticking out 90 degrees along both sides of the leaf stem. Know which kind you are dealing with. As for the edible kinds, you can eat the tiny little mustard-like seeds, they are full of powerful nutrition, despite their size. They can be chewed when fresh in summer. When they dry in the fall, they become really hard and need to be soaked first.

Vicia

a genus of annual, biennial, or perennial herbs of the family Leguminosae. The stems are usually weak and only rarely upright. The leaves as a rule are paripinnate and end in tendrils, with Which they cling to surrounding plants or another support. There are one or two to three flowers in the leaf axils, or the flowers may be gathered in clusters. There are more than 150 species, predominantly in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, especially in the Mediterranean countries; there are a few in South America and in the mountains of tropical East Africa. In the USSR there are more than 80 species, mainly in the Caucasus. Almost all Vicia are good nectar plants and valuable fodder grasses. The cultivated species are better known by the name vetch. The perennial unijugate vetch (V. unijuga) is grown as an ornamental. The genus Vicia sometimes includes the species V.faba, beans.

M. E. KIRPICHNIKOV

Vicia

Related to Vicia: Vicia cracca, Vicia sativa, Vicia villosa, Trifolium

noun

Synonyms for Vicia

noun widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbs

Synonyms

genus Vicia

Related Words

rosid dicot genus
Papilionoideae
subfamily Papilionoideae
vetch
tare
broad-bean
broad-bean plant
English bean
European bean
field bean
Vicia faba
broad bean
hairy tare
hairy vetch
Vicia villosa