Definition of leguminous plant Leguminous plant
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| leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae | ||
| legume | ||
| herbaceous plant, herb aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities | ||
| climber someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains; "the lead climber looked strong still but his partner often slumped in his ropes" | ||
| fabaceae, family fabaceae, family leguminosae, legume family, leguminosae, pea family a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae | ||
| legume the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) | ||
| arachis hypogaea, peanut vine, peanut pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | ||
| chickpea plant, cicer arietinum, egyptian pea, chickpea large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried | ||
| cluster bean, cyamopsis psoraloides, cyamopsis tetragonolobus, guar drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material | ||
| glycine max, soja, soja bean, soybean plant, soya, soya bean, soybean, soy the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein) | ||
| wild pea any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines | ||
| lens culinaris, lentil plant, lentil round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food | ||
| dolichos biflorus, horse grain, horse gram, macrotyloma uniflorum, poor man's pulse twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos | ||
| crazy weed, crazyweed, locoweed any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | ||
| bean plant, bean any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food | ||
| pea plant, pea seed of a pea plant used for food | ||
| sesbania any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers | ||
| vetch any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants | ||
| moth bean, phaseolus aconitifolius, vigna aconitifolia East Indian legume having hairy foliage and small yellow flowers followed by cylindrical pods; used especially in India for food and forage and as a soil conditioner; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | ||
| adsuki bean, adzuki bean, phaseolus angularis, vigna angularis bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds | ||
| corkscrew flower, phaseolus caracalla, snail-flower, snail bean, snail flower, snailflower, vigna caracalla perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | ||
| golden gram, green gram, mung, mung bean, phaseolus aureus, vigna radiata erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | ||
| cowpea plant, vigna sinensis, vigna unguiculata, black-eyed pea, cowpea eaten fresh as shell beans or dried | ||
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