1) Bean 2) Bean or pea 3) Chickpea or soybean 4) Clover 5) Esculent vegetable 6) Fiber source 7) French word used in English 8) Herb 9) Herbaceous plant 10) Leguminous plant 11) Lentil or bean 12) Lentil or pea 13) Mesquite or mimosa 14) Paleolithic diet no-no 15) Pea or bean 16) Pea or peanut 17) Pea or pinto bean
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1) Bean 2) Chickpea 3) Cowpea 4) Crazyweed 5) Garbanzo 6) Guar 7) Lentil 8) Locoweed 9) Mung 10) Pea 11) Seedpod 12) Sesbania 13) Snailflower 14) Soja 15) Soya 16) Vetch
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(1) a fruit characteristic of the families Mimosaceae, Caesalpiniaceae and Fabaceae, formed from one carpel and either dihiscent along both sides, or indehiscent; (2) a crop species in the family Fabaceae; (3) a plant belonging to the Leguminosae (Fabaceae family).
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• (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.
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A dry pod-like fruit, belonging to member of the Pea Family, usually dehiscent, opening along longitudinal suture.
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a dry, dehiscent fruit derived from a single carpel and usually opening along two lines of dehiscence like a pea pod
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Also called a pod,a multiseeded dry fruit that liberates its seeds by splitting along two margins, in for example the bean and the pea. See also follicle.
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A family of plants, including many valuable food and forage species, such as peas, beans, soybeans, peanuts, clovers, and alfalfas. They can convert nitrogen from the air to build up nitrogen in the soil.
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A plant whose roots form an association with soil borne bacteria that can capture atmospheric nitrogen. A good example of this are soybeans.
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A member of the pea family that possesses root nodules containing nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
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A one-celled fruit that splits along two sutures or seams, e.g. pea.
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A member of the pea family (Fabaceae) that possesses root nodules containing nitrogen-fixing bacteria. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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(leg´ūm) (lә-gūm´) any plant of the large family Leguminosae. the pod or fruit of one of these plants, such as a pea or bean; this is an important source of protein in a vegetarian diet.
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a dry, dehiscent fruit derived from a single carpel and usually opening along two lines of dehiscence like a pea pod
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Leg'ume (lĕg'um or le*gūm')
noun [ French
légume , Latin
legumen , from
legere to gather. So called because they may be gathered without cutting. See
Legend .]
1. (Botany) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached a...
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A member of the Fabaceae family (pea family). Also the fruit or pod of this family of plants. This family includes many plants grown for food or livestock forage. Leguminous plants commonly grown by U.S. farmers include forage crops such as alfalfa and clover, and food crops such as beans and peas.
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A class of plants that manufacture their own nitrogen while growing; alfalfa and clover are the most common
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A dry pod-like fruit, belonging to member of the Pea Family, usually dehiscent, opening along longitudinal suture.
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A legume is a dry fruit formed from a single carpel and containing one or more seeds, which are shed when mature. It is the characteristic fruit of the Leguminosae family. Legumes split, often explosively, along both sides and the two halves of the fruit move apart to expose the seeds. A special form of the legume is the lomentum.
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a plant whose roots form an association with soilborne bacteria that can capture atmospheric nitrogen.
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A usually dry, dehiscent (splitting open at maturity) fruit derived from one carpel that splits along two sutures
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A dry fruit with two seams in the outer wall. Example: Black locust.
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noun the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
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A legume is a flowering plant that bears its protein-rich seeds in pods and can fix nitrogen from the soil (due to the symbiotic root bacteria rhizobia). Some legumes include lentils, beans, clover, alfalfa, vetches, kudzu, peas and Leucaena spp.. Members of the plant family Fabaceae.
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Any of thousands of plant species that have seed pods that split along both sides when ripe. Some of the more common legumes used for human consumption are beans, lentils, peanuts, peas, and soybeans. Others, such as clover and alfalfa, are used as animal feed. Legumes have a unique ability to obtain much or all of their nitrogen requirements fro...
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