legūmen — meaning in English

English meaning

• legume noun The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
• pulse noun The regular beat you feel in an artery, caused by the heart pumping blood.

Senses

legūmen is used for these senses in English:

• legume (botany) The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
• pulse (uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume.

legume — full definition

1. noun The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
2. noun 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).
3. noun A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

pulse — full definition

1. noun The regular beat you feel in an artery, caused by the heart pumping blood.
2. noun A brief burst of energy, sound, or signal, often repeated in a sequence.
3. verb To beat or throb rhythmically, or to send something out in short bursts.
4. noun The edible seed of a legume plant, such as a lentil, bean, or pea.

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