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vetchAny of a group of trailing or climbing plants belonging to the pea family, usually having seed pods and purple, yellow, or white flowers, and including the fodder crop alfalfa (Medicago sativa). (Several genera, especially Vicia, family Leguminosae.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Although the beaks and feet of birds are generally quite clean, I can show that earth sometimes adheres to them: in one instance I removed twenty-two grains of dry argillaceous earth from one foot of a partridge, and in this earth there was a pebble quite as large as the seed of a vetch. |
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