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Definition of Grass vetchling
1. Noun. Annual European vetch with red flowers.
Exact synonyms: Grass Vetch, Lathyrus Nissolia
Group relationships: Genus Lathyrus, Lathyrus
Generic synonyms: Vetchling
Group relationships: Genus Lathyrus, Lathyrus
Generic synonyms: Vetchling
Literary usage of Grass vetchling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Country Month by Month by Jean Allan Owen, George Simonds Boulger (1902)
"... perhaps at the foot of this very hedgerow, we may light upon another less
common member of the same genus, the crimson grass-vetchling, ..."
2. John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte Mary Yonge (1899)
"WOOD V. (V. sepium).—A brilliant little red flower. grass vetchling (Lathyrus
Nissolia).—Found once in a bank near Chandler's Ford ; once at ..."
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