LEGUME

legume

(noun) the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)

legume, leguminous plant

(noun) an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae

legume

(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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

legume (plural legumes)

The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.

Hyponym: pulse

Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).

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

Anagrams

• emulge

Source: Wiktionary

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Leg"ume, n. Etym: [F. légume, L. legumen, fr. legere to gather. So called because they may be gathered without cutting. See Legend.]

1. (Bot.)

Definition: 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.

Definition: The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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