genus Vicia

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genus Vicia - widely distributed genus of annual or perennial and often climbing herbsViciarosid 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