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vetchling
[ vech-ling ]
noun
- any of several slender, climbing plants belonging to the genus Lathyrus, of the legume family, similar to the vetch but having a winged or angular stem, as L. palustris, of North America.
vetchling
/ 藞惫蓻迟蕛濒瑟艐 /
noun
- any of various leguminous tendril-climbing plants of the genus Lathyrus, esp L. pratensis ( meadow vetchling ), mainly of N temperate regions, having winged or angled stems and showy flowers See also sweet pea
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of vetchling1
Example Sentences
The yellow meadow vetchling is a beautiful, bright-yellow, pea-like flower, that dearly loves a snug corner under a hedge or bush of furze.
A yellow vetchling, too, is now opening its yellow petals beside the Long Ditton road: another summer flower, which comes in as the blue veronica is leaving the sward.
Corn-marigold was gay again in July, and the white blackberry blossoms came with crane's bill and flax, campion and willow-herb, speedwell and vetchling.
The yellow vetchling had climbed up from the ditch and opened its flower, and there were young nuts on the hazel bough.
On slender stalks the yellow vetchling blooms, reaching ambitiously as tall as the lowest of the brambles.
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