What (who) is legume - definition

PLANT IN THE FAMILY FABACEAE

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Legume

·noun The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.

II. Legume ·noun A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

legume

(Bot.) Simple pod (of two valves).

legume

(legumes)

People sometimes use legumes to refer to peas, beans, and other related vegetables. (TECHNICAL)

= pulse

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Wikipedia

Legume

A legume () is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. When used as a dry grain, the seed is also called a pulse. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consumption, for livestock forage and silage, and as soil-enhancing green manure. Well-known legumes include beans, soybeans, chickpeas, peanuts, lentils, lupins, mesquite, carob, tamarind, alfalfa, and clover. Legumes produce a botanically unique type of fruit – a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides.

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 crop rotation.

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Pronunciation examples for legume

1. Legumes.

From Investment Banker to Tofu Master _ Minh Tsai _ Chefs at Google

2. So it means that legume crops and legume based pastures,

The Wonders of Pulses - Saving our Health & Agriculture _ Liz Carlisle + More _ Talks at Google

3. with grains and legumes.

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4. cooking beans, legumes, pasta.

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5. beans, legumes, vegetables.

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Examples of use of legume

1. I will be keeping my eye on the seeds‘ developments over the coming months and years." The first seeds to germinate belonged to the legume Liparia villosa.

2. The exact identity of the last of the trio remains a mystery, although the team know it to be a second legume, this time an acacia.

3. The DOE Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) will sequence the genome (decode the DNA) of the soybean, Glycine max, the world‘s most valuable legume crop.

4. If they are allergic to peanuts, they might also react to other foods in the legume family such as Soya, lentils and beans.

5. Stacy Ferguson, the pert legume whose feminine presence revitalized the Black Eyed Peas –– retains the group‘s proven gift for indelible melodies, but reaches beyond their cartoonish poses and half–cocked raps for a fuller, more diverse sound.