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milk vetch
noun[ U ]
(alsomilkvetch)uk /ˈmɪlk ˌvetʃ/ us /ˈmɪlk ˌvetʃ/
a plant from the pea family that grows wild in the western US and is poisonous to horses, sheep, and cows:
Milk vetch is grown to add nitrogen to paddy fields.
The closure of the area was done to protect the threatened, purple-flowering milkvetch.
Synonym
locoweed
Nearly 6,300 acres have been designated as critical habitat for the Holmgren milkvetch and the Shivwitz milkvetch.
He worked with Cicer milk vetch because bumblebees are the best pollinator for this particular forage legume.
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