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VEZA [3 records]

Record 1 2016-10-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Fabaceae.

OBS

hairy vetch: preferred common name in the Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds (2003).

Key term(s)
  • winter-vetch
  • wooly vetch

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Fabaceae.

OBS

vesce velue : nom à privilégier selon l'Inventaire des mauvaises herbes du Canada (2003).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 2 2016-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
DEF

A European vetch (Vicia benghalensis) with whitish purple flowers that is grown for green manure and forage esp. on the Pacific coast of No. America.

OBS

A plant also known under the scientific name Vicia benghalensis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

vesce : légumineuse fourragère annuelle, généralement cultivée en association avec une céréale. Famille des papilionacées.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 3 2004-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Plant and Crop Production

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
DEF

Genre de légumineuses papilionacées [...] Les vesces se cultivent toujours mélangées à une céréale, dont les tiges lui servent de support. Elles donnent un excellent fourrage vert quand on les coupe en pleine floraison; pour constituer un fourrage sec, on n'effectue la coupe qu'un peu avant la maturité des gousses.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
  • Producción vegetal
DEF

Planta herbácea anual de la familia de las Leguminosas y del mismo género que el haba, utilizada como forraje.

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