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Definition: Vetch |
VetchNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vetch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
Etymology: Vetch \Vetch\, noun. [Also fitch; Old English ficche, feche, for veche, Old French veche, vecce, vesche, vesce, French vesce, from the Latin expression vicia.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Any plant of the genus Vicia, especially Vicia sativa, largely used for silage or fodder. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vetch."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completeness | Brimming; brimful, topful, topfull; chock full, choke full; as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch; saturated, crammed; replete; (redundant); fraught, laden; full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged; heavy laden. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vetch |
| English words defined with "vetch": alpine milk vetch, axseed ♦ bird vetch, bitter betch, Bitter vetch, bush vetch ♦ Chichling, Chichling vetch, Coronilla varia, crown vetch ♦ Ers ♦ genus Hippocrepis, grass vetch, grass vetchling ♦ hairy tare, hairy vetch, heath pea, Hippocrepis, Horse vetch, horseshoe vetch ♦ kidney vetch ♦ Lady's finger, Lathyrus nissolia ♦ milk vetch ♦ Papilionaceous, Pea vine, purple milk vetch ♦ Rattleweed ♦ Sensitive joint vetch, spring vetch, sweet vetch ♦ tuberous vetch, tufted vetch ♦ Vernine, Vicia orobus, Vicia villosa, Vicine ♦ Woundwort. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "vetch": Ers. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa) at Lower Table Rock.Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
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| "Vetch" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 77.05% of the time. "Vetch" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 77.05% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.95% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vetch": alpine milk vetch ♦ bird vetch ♦ bitter vetch ♦ bush vetch ♦ Chichling vetch ♦ crown vetch ♦ grass vetch ♦ hairy vetch ♦ Horse vetch ♦ horsehoe vetch ♦ horseshoe vetch ♦ kidney vetch ♦ lentil vetch ♦ licorice vetch ♦ milk vetch ♦ purple milk vetch ♦ sensitive joint vetch ♦ spring vetch ♦ sweet vetch ♦ tuberous vetch ♦ tufted vetch. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "vetch": Vetch-retch. | |
Ending with "vetch": bitter-vetch, Milk-Vetch. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vetch | 340 |
crown vetch | 91 |
phone vetch | 19 |
hairy vetch | 17 |
black vetch | 9 |
dye vetch | 5 |
purple vetch | 3 |
cordless phone vetch | 3 |
cow vetch | 3 |
deer vetch | 3 |
toy vetch | 2 |
milk vetch | 2 |
crown plant vetch | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vetch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Urov, Grashinë, Buxhak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | البيقة نبات. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Фий. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Vikev (tare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vikker, vikke (tare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wikke (tare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rehuvirna (common vetch, summer vetch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Vesce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | wikje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wicke (sweet pea, tare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βίκος (tare), άρακοσ, αρακάς (peas), Λαθούρι, 'ίκοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כרשי ", בקי". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Bükköny (sweet pea, tare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | veccia (tare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 烏野豌豆 (tare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | からすのえ"どう (tare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fitch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etchvay Ervilhaca (tare). (various references) Mãzãriche (sleet). (various references) "орошек, 'ика. (various references) grahorica (tare). (various references) vezas, veza (tare), Arveja (common vetch, garden pea, green pea, pea, summer vetch, tare). (various references) Vicker (tare). (various references) Karaburçak, Burçak (tare). (various references) 'ика. (various references) gwy+g. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | erue, erui, ervum, Vicia, viciam. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vetch": vetches, vetchling, vetchlings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "vetch": kvetch. (additional references) | |
Words containing "vetch": kvetched, kvetches, kvetchier, kvetchiest, kvetching, kvetchy. (additional references) | |
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"Vetch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Getech, kvetch, tetch, vath, vec, vech, vect, veitchii, Vescy, vetchs, veth, vich, vitc, vith, Vojtech, vretch, vrtch, vuch, Xvith. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "etch": Dretch, Fletch, Wretch. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-t-v" | |
-1 letter: etch. | |
-2 letters: eth, het, the, vet. | |
-3 letters: eh, et, he. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-t-v" | |
+1 letter: kvetch. | |
+2 letters: cheviot, kvetchy, vetches. | |
+3 letters: chevalet, cheviots, kvetched, kvetches. | |
+4 letters: anchoveta, chevalets, kvetchier, kvetching, overmatch, vetchling. | |
+5 letters: anchovetas, anchovetta, architrave, avouchment, czarevitch, hovercraft, inchoative, kvetchiest, outachieve, revanchist, tovariches, vetchlings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 74 63 68 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . - -.-. .... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01110100 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e t c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0074 0063 0068 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5671866974 |
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