Here we found a small quantity of the little pea-vetch, which is such excellent food for the camels. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
The pulses are represented by pea and bitter vetch. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Archaeobotany] Reference
New clover and vetch shoots must be ready, and bulbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
The fruit and flower resemble those of the wood vetch. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Pray you, go and vetch me in my closet un boitier vert, a box. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference
The vetch, whether raw or boiled, creates flatulence and pain. From Wordnik.com. [On Regimen In Acute Diseases] Reference
There is no need to imitate the seed-vessel of a brother vetch!. From Wordnik.com. [Parables of the Christ-life] Reference
Every spot was covered with flowers, mostly of the vetch family. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
And of course, the vetch and clovers are growing all winter long. From Wordnik.com. [Growing a Beautiful Edible Landscape in an Urban Neighborhood] Reference
It is as bitter a vetch as you can find and grossly unappetizing. From Wordnik.com. [Air travel with cats] Reference
The hairy or winter vetch lives through the hard freezing winters. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
Summer vetch, although an equally good grower, is killed by freezing. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
With its sheer wings withdrawn, it was a tangle of spiked vines and vetch. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
This has been interpreted to mean that cicer (vetch) was mixed with the flour. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Skarphedinn laughed at her, and asked why she was so angry with the vetch stack. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
The servile tribe of Hagheri live in reed huts; we saw them threshing gilgil and vetch. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Nevertheless, it closely resembles the small purple vetch of our summer hedgerows at home. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
How about a shot of miniscule droplets of morning dew on an itty-bitty purple vetch flower?. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
She thought about using wild carrots or the peas from milk vetch pods, but changed her mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
Those purple-blue Mowers, with the small leaves, that's milk vetch, and it has a lot of pods. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
I picked daisies and a blue flower called cow vetch and plopped them in a glass by the windows. From Wordnik.com. [Lea Lane: The Inner Journey I Had To Take: Two Weeks Alone on a Cliff] Reference
Etuits are all well and good, but don't forget Guido's high note or the ubiquitous bitter vetch. From Wordnik.com. ["Crossword puzzles heavily favor Democrats."] Reference
We've seen me showing off what my macro lens can do with the images of the itty-bitty purple vetch flowers. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Because of higher protein content, legumes (for instance, alfalfa, cowpea, vetch, or pea) are better than grass. From Wordnik.com. [14 Domestic Rabbit] Reference
Cowpeas, beans, clover, vetch and plants having foliage, flowers, seed pods and seeds like them are called Legumes. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
Every September, vetch and rye were sown as a cover-crop and soil-builder and disked into the soil the following spring. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference
In this area, vetch grows relatively fast, assumes a quick soil cover to check ground erosion and produces high biomass. From Wordnik.com. [1. Soil constraints on sustainable plant production in the tropics.] Reference
Concluding, it can be stated that in the Rwandan highlands vetch grows rapidly and provides a quick cover to control erosion. From Wordnik.com. [1. Soil constraints on sustainable plant production in the tropics.] Reference
A few swallows swoop low and the rank green is broken by pink hemp agrimony, cream meadowsweet, blue tufted vetch and purple knapweed. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
She had brought in a great bunch of blue vetch and pale mustard, and we had put it in the center of the table in a bowl of gray pottery. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
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