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A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: vegetable, veggie, veg
Narrower terms: pulse, bean, edible bean, lentil, pea, chickpea, garbanzo, black-eyed pea, cowpea
noun
an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: leguminous plant
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant, climber
Narrower terms: peanut, peanut vine, Arachis hypogaea, chickpea, chickpea plant, Egyptian pea, Cicer arietinum, guar, cluster bean, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, Cyamopsis psoraloides, soy, soya, soybean, soya bean, soybean plant, soja, soja bean, Glycine max, wild pea, lentil, lentil plant, Lens culinaris, horse gram, horse grain, poor man's pulse, Macrotyloma uniflorum, Dolichos biflorus, locoweed, crazyweed, crazy weed, bean, bean plant, pea, pea plant, sesbania, vetch, moth bean, Vigna aconitifolia, Phaseolus aconitifolius, adzuki bean, adsuki bean, Vigna angularis, Phaseolus angularis, snailflower, snail-flower, snail flower, snail bean, corkscrew flower, Vigna caracalla, Phaseolus caracalla, mung, mung bean, green gram, golden gram, Vigna radiata, Phaseolus aureus, cowpea, cowpea plant, black-eyed pea, Vigna unguiculata, Vigna sinensis, asparagus bean, yard-long bean, Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, Vigna sesquipedalis
noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: pod, seedpod
Narrower terms: chickpea, garbanzo, lentil, pea, field pea, cowpea, black-eyed pea
History
Borrowed from French légume, from Latin legūmen (“bean”). Doublet of legumen.
Across languages
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