Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sweetvetch

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sweet-vetch
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the flowering plants of genus Hedysarum.

Example Sentences

"In general aspect of foliage and flowers, the sweetvetches resemble the milkvetches and locoweeds. The short wing petals and abruptly angled keel petals are diagnostic features which distinguish the sweetvetches in flower."
"In this environment, glacier lily (Erythronium grandiflorum) bulbs (Butler 1992; and yellow sweetvetch (Hedysarum sulphurescens) roots are major food sources."
"There, where snow has melted away from last year's brown, matted grasses, their sensitive noses sniff out the odour of sweetvetch roots, glacier lily bulbs and other buried treasures."

Etymology

From sweet + vetch.

Inflected Forms

sweetvetches (plural)

Phrases

Mountain sweetvetch sulla sweetvetch Utah sweetvech western sweetvetch yellow sweetvetch indian potato

Frequently Paired Words

indian potato

Questions

What does sweetvetch mean?: Any of the flowering plants of genus Hedysarum.
Where does sweetvetch come from?: From sweet + vetch.

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