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milk vetch
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun milk vetch has 1 sense
- milk vetch(n = noun.plant) milk-vetch - any of various plants of the genus Astragalus; Array is a member of astragalus, genus astragalus
has particulars: astragalus glycyphyllos, wild licorice, wild liquorice, alpine milk vetch, astragalus alpinus, astragalus danicus, purple milk vetch
is a kind of ligneous plant, woody plant
CIDE DICTIONARY
milk vetch,
A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos ) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats. [1913 Webster]
" The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus , of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere."
[1913 Webster]
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