legume — meaning in English

English meaning

• legume noun The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
• vegetable noun A plant, or part of a plant, grown to be eaten — such as the leaves, roots, or stems — that isn't classified as a fruit, grain, herb, or spice.

Senses

legume is used for these senses in English:

• legume (botany) The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
• vegetable A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense.
• vegetable The edible part of such a plant.

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.

vegetable — full definition

1. noun A plant, or part of a plant, grown to be eaten — such as the leaves, roots, or stems — that isn't classified as a fruit, grain, herb, or spice.
2. adj Relating to plants or to vegetables specifically.

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