Milk vetch

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Milk vetch has 1 sense

milk vetch(n = noun.plant) milk-vetch - any of various plants of the genus Astragalus;

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

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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]