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Definition of Bird vetch
1. Noun. Common perennial climber of temperate regions of Eurasia and North America having dense elongate clusters of flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bird Vetch
Literary usage of Bird vetch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"bird vetch closely resembles hairy vetch, but the herbage is less pubescent.
In Europe bird vetch occurs as a weed in grain fields, and the commercial seed ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Blue or bird vetch. Fig. 2613. Vicia Crocea L. Sp. PI. 735. 1753. Perennial,
finely pubescent or sometimes ..."
3. Nantucket Wild Flowers by Alice Owen Albertson (1921)
"bird vetch, Time Grass, Cat Pea. Cracca: classical name for some leguminous plant.
THE PREFERRED HABITAT: dry, sandy soil. THE PLANT: climbing or trailing, ..."
4. Text-book of General Botany by Wilhelm Julius Behrens (1885)
"There are other diagrams, however, which can be divided into similar halves only
in one direction, eg, bird-vetch (Vicia I. Symmetrical diagram of bird- ..."
5. Annual Report by Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station (1901)
"Salt is, however, the best chemical for destroying the orange hawkweed in grass
lands, and its use for that purpose is strongly recommended. THE bird vetch ..."
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