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sweetvetch

sweetvetch noun: any of the flowering plants of genus Hedysarum.

sweetvetch: any of the flowering plants of genus Hedysarum
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Noun

sweetvetch (plural sweetvetches)

  1. Any of the flowering plants of genus Hedysarum.
    • In general aspect of foliage and flowers, the sweetvetches resemble the milkvetches and locoweeds. The short wing petals and abruptly angled keel petals are diagnostic features which distinguish the sweetvetches in flower.1990, Stanley L. Welsh, David B. Williams, Grand Views of Canyon Country: A Driving Guide, page 30
    • In this environment, glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum) bulbs (Butler 1992; and yellow sweetvetch (Hedysarum sulphurescens) roots are major food sources.1995, David R. Butler, Zoogeomorphology: Animals as Geomorphic Agents, page 68

Forms of sweetvetch

pluralsweetvetches

Origin of sweetvetch

From sweet + vetch.

Words formed from sweetvetch

  • Mountain sweetvetch
  • sulla sweetvetch
  • Utah sweetvech
  • western sweetvetch
  • yellow sweetvetch

Questions about sweetvetch

What does sweetvetch mean?
Sweetvetch means any of the flowering plants of genus Hedysarum.
What part of speech is sweetvetch?
Sweetvetch is a noun.
What is the plural of sweetvetch?
The plural of sweetvetch is sweetvetches.

Words near sweetvetch in the dictionary

  1. sweettalking
  2. sweettalks
  3. sweetums
  4. sweetveld
  5. sweetvelds
  6. sweetvetch
  7. sweetvetches
  8. sweetwater
  9. Sweetwater County
  10. sweetwaters
  11. sweetweed

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