legume family

noun

1. the large plant family Leguminosae (or Fabaceae), typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines having usually compound leaves, clusters of irregular, keeled flowers, and fruit in the form of a pod splitting along both sides, and including beans, peas, acacia, alfalfa, clover, indigo, lentil, mesquite, mimosa, and peanut.

Example Sentences

This is frequently the cause of failure in growing alfalfa, soybeans, cowpeas and less well known members of the legume family.

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Peanuts really belong to the legume family, but are quite as good as any kind of nuts.

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It lays its eggs upon the upper surface of the leaflets of locusts and other plants of the legume family.

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