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Bitter vetch

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(Bot.) a name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Orobus and Ervum Ervilia.

See also: Bitter



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Heath pea, or bitter vetch, was used in medieval times to suppress hunger when crops failed.
These crops consisted of three domesticated cereals--emmer, einkorn, and hulled barley--together with flax and four bean varieties--lentil, pea, bitter vetch, and chickpea.
Across the Mediterranean since to Tel Aviv & Ramatayim down the road: there you sweetened the bitter vetch of my crippled teens - prince into toad - with your already nostalgic harmonies.
 
 
 
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