vicia sativa

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   herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building

   Synonymsspring vetch

   Broadervetch

Questions about vicia sativa

What does vicia sativa mean?

vicia sativa means "herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building".

What is another word for vicia sativa?

Close synonyms include spring 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 vicia sativa a common word?

vicia sativa 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.