Usually with distinguishing word: any of certain related plants of the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae), esp. those with edible seeds. Now historical.

With distinguishing word: any of various plants of other genera related to vetches or thought to resemble a vetch in some way.

either of two leguminous Mediterranean plants, spec. (a) (also hatchet fitch) Securigerea securidaca, having yellow flowers and flattened seeds…

goat's rue, Galega officinalis.

any plant of the genus Scorpiurus.

A leguminous plant (Securigera coronilla), a native of Southern Europe.

= ax-fitch, n.

= ax-seed, n.

A name given by the herbalists to more than one leguminous plant; esp. to Psoralea bituminosa, a native of the Mediterranean and Levantine region.

Any of several herbaceous plants with flowers borne in clusters resembling fingers; esp. kidney vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria) and, formerly…

Originally: any of various small leguminous plants typically having pinnate leaves, papilionaceous flowers, and a cluster of seed pods thought to…

(a) a leguminous plant of the genus Galega, esp. G. officinalis, native to the Middle East and naturalized in Eurasia, used as a medicinal herb…

Botany. The same as horse-vetch: see compounds 4.

Herbalism. A name given to the leguminous plants of the genus Scorpiurus from the shape of their pods.

a leguminous herb (Anthyllis vulneraria), Lady's-fingers.

a leguminous plant (Hippocrepis comosa) bearing umbels of yellow flowers, and jointed pods each division of which resembles a horseshoe.

(a) a leguminous plant of the genus Galega, esp. G. officinalis; = goat's rue n. (a) at compounds 3b; (b) (U.S.), a toxic vetchlike leguminous plant…

= kidney-vetch n.

A genus of the family Leguminosæ, Goat's rue.

Something used for stanching blood, a styptic. Anglo-Irish. The leguminous plant Anthyllis vulneraria.

the Coronilla Emerus, a common plant of Southern Europe, with bright-yellow flowers.

A genus of leguminous plants allied to the Haricot, widely distributed through Asia, Africa, and America.

A genus of leguminous trees, shrubs, or plants, characterized by having odd-pinnate leaves and racemose or paniculate flowers, many species of…

U.S. A plant of the eastern United States, Cassia fasciculata (family Caesalpiniaceae (Leguminosae)), which has showy yellow petals and leaflets…

A plant of the genus Bauhinia (family Leguminosæ) of which there are many tropical species. Also attributive.

A member of a genus of shrubs or herbs so called, which belongs to the family Leguminosæ and includes plants bearing mostly yellow flowers in umbels.

sensitive joint-vetch, Æschynomene hispida.

Cæsalpinia sepiaria, a leguminous plant.

Any of several leguminous plants native to North America having long, tough roots, esp. goat's rue (Tephrosia virginiana), formerly used to poison…

any of various plants of the genus Stylosanthes (family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)), having flowers with a columnar calyx tube and native to warm or…

Chiefly North American. Any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria (family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)), having inflated pods in which the seeds rattle…

A genus of tropical flowering legumes typically having twining, climbing stems, compound leaves, pink or purple flowers, and seeds which may be…

any of various plants yielding a milky juice, esp. (a) U.S. = milk pea n.; (b) Australian any of various spurges, esp. Euphorbia drummondii.

a leguminous plant of the genus Æschynomene, so called from its jointed seed pods.

any of several prostrate plants of the genus Galactia (family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)), native to the warmer parts of America.

any of various North American plants of the genus Dalea (family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)), with pinnate leaves and spikes of pink or white flowers.

A plant of the genus Oxytropis (see Oxytropis, n.).

Any of various plants of the family Fabaceae (Leguminosae); spec. those of the genus Crotalaria (cf. rattlebox, n. 2a) or Astragalus (astragalus, n.)…

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any of various pea plants of the Australasian genus Swainsona (family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)), which are poisonous to livestock.

A boreal plant, Hedysarum alpinum (family Fabaceae(Leguminosae)), whose sweetish root, which has a taste reminiscent of liquorice, is eaten as a…

Any of several shrubby leguminous plants of the Caribbean area having leaves or seed-pods that are said to resemble coins: (a) a woody vine, Dalbergia…

a leguminous plant with trifoliolate leaves, Stylosanthes humilis (family Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae)), native to tropical South America, and…

Originally: any of various small leguminous plants typically having pinnate leaves, papilionaceous flowers, and a cluster of seed pods thought to…