milk vetch
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milk vetch
noun
1.
a European plant, Astragalus glycyphyllos, of the legume family, believed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.
2.
any herb of certain allied genera.
Origin:
1590–1600
1590–1600
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| milk vetch | |
| —n | |
| any of various leguminous plants of the genus Astragalus, esp A. glycyphyllos, with clusters of purple, white, or yellowish flowers: formerly reputed to increase milk production in goats | |
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Milk vetch
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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