leguminous plant
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1. an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
hypernym | : | climber, |
definition | : | a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | arachis hypogaea, peanut, peanut vine, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean, soybean plant, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | wild pea, |
definition | : | any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | lens culinaris, lentil, lentil plant, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | crazy weed, crazyweed, locoweed, |
definition | : | any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | bean, bean plant, |
definition | : | any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | pea, pea plant, |
definition | : | a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | sesbania, |
definition | : | any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | vetch, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | moth bean, phaseolus aconitifolius, vigna aconitifolia, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | golden gram, green gram, mung, mung bean, phaseolus aureus, vigna radiata, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
part holonym | : | legume, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
derivation | : | leguminous, |
definition | : | relating to or consisting of legumes (adj.pert) |
derivation | : | leguminous, |
definition | : | relating to or consisting of legumes (adj.pert) |
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