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vetch

[ UK /vˈɛt‍ʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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 plants

How To Use vetch In A Sentence

  • The roadsides sparkled with coreopsis, crimson clover, vetch, spring beauties, and other gem-like blooms.
  • And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
  • Elle, whoever you are (who are you?) you certainly are a kvetcher and a complainer. Scripting News for 8/24/2006 « Scripting News Annex
  • Just think, if the people who are now kvetching about freedom of speech simply posted their names on the website, then none of the speculation would have happened.
  • Here we found a small quantity of the little pea-vetch, which is such excellent food for the camels. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
  • Sometimes, instead of a multi-year hayfield, Moyer will just use hairy vetch or a vetch / oats mix as a cover crop between the summer wheat harvest and corn planting the following spring.
  • Or, Pouring Ketchup On An Over-cooked Campaign, or Ketchup Money to Help Campaign Catch Up, or some sort of bad pun involving Ketchup, money and catch up bonus points if you can also work "kvetch" into the pun*:Unlike Dean and Bush, Kerry said he will put his own money into the campaign, becoming the first Democrat in at least 20 years to do so. November 2003 ~ Angry Bear
  • Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch. Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
  • Caragana korshinski, salix psammophila and sweat vetch hedysarumi are three good sand shrubs for resisting wind, protecting water and soil, improving ecosystem.
  • He kvetched and annoyed his way out of the game, voted out because no one could stand to be around him a moment longer. Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Fetuses Gone Wild!
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