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LEGUMINOUS PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
Synonyms:
legume; leguminous plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("leguminous plant" is a kind of...):
climber (a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants)
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Meronyms (parts of "leguminous plant"):
legume (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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leguminous plant"):
asparagus bean; Vigna sesquipedalis; Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis; yard-long bean (South American bean having very long succulent pods)
black-eyed pea; cowpea; cowpea plant; Vigna sinensis; Vigna unguiculata (sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure)
mung; mung bean; mung bean plant; 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)
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)
adsuki bean; adzuki bean; Phaseolus angularis; Vigna angularis (bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds)
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)
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)
sesbania (any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers)
pea; pea plant (a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds)
bean; bean plant (any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods)
crazy weed; crazyweed; locoweed (any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock)
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)
Lens culinaris; lentil; lentil plant (widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder)
wild pea (any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines)
Glycine max; soja; soja bean; soy; soya; soya bean; soybean; soybean plant (erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia)
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)
chickpea; chickpea plant; Cicer arietinum; Egyptian pea (Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds)
Arachis hypogaea; peanut; peanut vine (widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground)
Holonyms ("leguminous plant" is a member of...):
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)
