Legume

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A pod, such as that of a pea or bean, that splits into two valves with the seeds attached to one edge of the valves.
  • n. Such a pod or seed used as food.
  • n. A plant of the pea family.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
  • n. Any of a large family (Leguminosae syn. Fabaceae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).
  • n. A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
  • n. The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. plural The fruit of leguminous plants of the pea kind; pulse.
  • n. A pod formed of a simple pistil, which is dehiscent by both sutures and so divides into two valves, the seeds being borne at the inner or ventral suture only.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
  • n. the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case
  • n. the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
  • Form
    leguminous   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pulse   
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