Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun spring_vetch

2 senses of spring vetch

Sense 1
spring vetch, Vicia sativa -- (herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building)
       => vetch -- (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)

Sense 2
spring vetchling, spring vetch, Lathyrus vernus -- (bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers)
       => vetchling -- (any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils)