Green Manure

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noun a plant of the pea family with small purple, pink, or white flowers, cultivated for fodder and green manure

  • The farmer planted vetch as a cover crop to improve the soil's fertility.
  • I saw some vetch growing wild by the roadside.
  • Let's go check out that field of vetch over there.
  • Her mind was like a tangled mess of vetch, with thoughts weaving in and out unpredictably.