milk-vetch

Questions about milk-vetch

What does milk-vetch mean?

milk-vetch means "any of various plants of the genus Astragalus".

How many syllables are in milk-vetch?

milk-vetch has 2 syllables: milk--vetch. The stress falls on "milk-".

What is another word for milk-vetch?

Close synonyms include milk vetch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is milk-vetch a common word?

milk-vetch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.