Definitions
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- noun any of several species of
flowering plants of the genusAstragalus
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Examples
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He got the notion into his head of cultivating the poppy for the purpose of getting opium from it, and above all the milk-vetch, which he intended to sell under the name of "family coffee."
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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The off-roaders trample sparse desert vegetation such as creosote bush and sagebrush, and crush globally imperiled squalid milk-vetch, Tecopa birdbeak and Churchill narrows buckwheat.
Coyote Crossing 2009
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: Peirson's milk-vetch, Riverside fairy shrimp, San Bernardino bluegrass, and San Diego fairy shrimp.
YubaNet.com 2008
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