vetchling

1. 1.

   any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils

   Broadervine

   Narrowerblack peagrass vetchgrass peaspring vetchling

   Part ofLathyrus

Other forms of vetchling

plural

vetchlings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vetchling

What does vetchling mean?

vetchling means "any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils".

How many syllables are in vetchling?

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

Is vetchling a common word?

vetchling 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.