milk vetch

Questions about milk vetch

What does milk vetch mean?

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

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.