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RELATED WORD : legume family

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun legume has 3 senses

• legume(n = noun.plant) leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae; Array
is a member of fabaceae, family fabaceae, family leguminosae, legume family, leguminosae, pea family
has parts: legume
has particulars: arachis hypogaea, peanut, peanut vine, chickpea, chickpea plant, cicer arietinum, egyptian pea, cluster bean, cyamopsis psoraloides, cyamopsis tetragonolobus, guar, glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean, soybean plant, wild pea, lens culinaris, lentil, lentil plant, dolichos biflorus, horse grain, horse gram, macrotyloma uniflorum, poor man's pulse, crazy weed, crazyweed, locoweed, bean, bean plant, pea, pea plant, sesbania, vetch, moth bean, phaseolus aconitifolius, vigna aconitifolia, adsuki bean, adzuki bean, phaseolus angularis, vigna angularis, corkscrew flower, phaseolus caracalla, snail-flower, snail bean, snail flower, snailflower, vigna caracalla, golden gram, green gram, mung, mung bean, phaseolus aureus, vigna radiata, black-eyed pea, cowpea, cowpea plant, vigna sinensis, vigna unguiculata, asparagus bean, vigna sesquipedalis, vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, yard-long bean
is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant, climber
Derived form adjective leguminous₁

• legume(n = noun.plant) Array - 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; Array
is a part of legume, leguminous plant
has particulars: chickpea, garbanzo, lentil, pea, field pea, black-eyed pea, cowpea
is a kind of pod, seedpod

• legume(n = noun.food) Array - the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils); Array
is a kind of veg, vegetable, veggie
has particulars: pulse, bean, edible bean, lentil, pea, chickpea, garbanzo, black-eyed pea, cowpea

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THESAURUS

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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legume

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.

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