 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
legume
noun
1: an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family
Leguminosae [syn: {leguminous plant}]
2: the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants
consisting of a two-valved case that splits along both
sides when ripe and having the seeds attached to one edge
of the valves
3: the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or
lentils)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Legume \Leg"ume\ (l[e^]g"[-u]m or l[-e]*g[=u]m"), noun [F.
l['e]gume, L. legumen, fr. legere to gather. So called
because they may be gathered without cutting. See {Legend}.]
1. (Bot.) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and
having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the
pea.
Note: In the latter circumstance, it differs from a siliqua,
in which the seeds are attached to both sutures. In
popular use, a legume is called a pod, or cod; as, pea
pod, or peas cod.
2. pl. The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans,
lupines; pulse.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "legume":
algae, autophyte, bean, boll, bracken, brown algae, burr, capsule,
climber, cod, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern,
follicle, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine,
green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, hull, husk, ivy, kelp,
legumen, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom,
parasite, parasitic plant, pea, pease cod, pericarp, perthophyte,
phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, pod, puffball,
pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum,
sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, seed pod, seed vessel,
seedbox, seedcase, silique, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch,
vine, wort, wrack
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