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Definitions of legumes in various dictionaries:
noun - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
noun - 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
noun - the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
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Alfalfa & peas, for example |
As part of this plant family that can get nitrogen from the air, soybeans don't need nitrogen fertilizers |
Like peanuts, peas are this type of fruit of the family Fabaceae |
Carob, red clover & string beans all belong to this family of plants |
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Plural form of legume. |
a leguminous plant, especially one grown as a crop. |
Legumes description |
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A legume () is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consumption of their grain seed (called pulse), for livestock forage and silage, and as soil-enhancing green manure. Well-known legumes include alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, chickpeas, lentils, lupin bean, mesquite, carob, soybeans, peanuts and tamarind. Fabaceae is the most common family found in tropical rainforests and in dry forests in the Americas and Africa.A legume fruit is a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides. A common name for this type of fruit is a pod, although the term "pod" is also applied to a number of other fruit types, such as that of vanilla (a capsule) and of the radish (a silique). * Legumes are notable in that most of them have symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in structures called root nodules. For that reason, they play a key role in cro |