Meaning & use
vetch
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A climbing or trailing plant of the pea family, often grown as fodder or a cover crop.
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Farmers planted vetch between rows of corn to enrich the soil with nitrogen.
The purple flowers of the vetch attracted bees along the hedgerow.
A note on using this word
Vetch is mainly a farming and gardening term; you're unlikely to encounter it outside agricultural or botanical writing.
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tare
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