legume
The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
Other meanings
A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
A kind of
- herb
- climber
Kinds of legume
- peanut
- cluster bean
- soy
- wild pea
- lentil
- horse gram
- bean
- pea
Related words
- legumey
- legumin
- legumine
- nonlegume
- legumelin
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "legūmen" (bean).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “legume” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.