legume

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The peanut is a true legume, and, like other legumes, bears nitrogen-gathering tubercles upon its roots.

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  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Such a pod or seed used as food.
  3. noun A plant of the pea family.

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  • When we grow legumes, those bacteria help replenish the soil we have depleted in growing non-legume crops. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 03 - September 1996
  • Crownvetch, Coronilla varia, is a perennial legume which spreads by creeping underground roots and natural reseeding. —  RNews - TOP STORIES
  • Trademark Office for hunting wear camouflaged to look like tree bark, for a legume sheller for removing the pod or shell from leguminous vegetables, and for a bunting with contrasting colors. —  PRWeb
  • But any resemblance to a legume (often mistaken for a nut) is unintentional. —  Fast Company
  • Aici nu exista fructe si legume, copiii mananca si beau numai tampenii. —  Latest posts @WeBlog.ro
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  1. French légume, from Latin legūmen, bean.

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  1. from F, légume = Spanish legumbre = Portuguese Italian legume, pulse, from Latin legumen, any leguminous plant, pulse, especially the bean, literally ‘that which may be gathered,’ from legere, gather: see legend.
 

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