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legume
/ˈlɛɡˌjum/
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What does legume mean?
noun
- The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
- 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).
- 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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proper noun
- A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlɛɡˌjum/
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This rotation, it may be observed, includes the grain crop, hoed crop, legume, and fallow every four years.
Sweet clover, a biennial legume that sprouts one spring then winters over to bloom the next summer, may go down 8 feet.
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Both classes of farmers may secure new nitrogen--that is, they can positively increase their nitrogen supply by sufficient use of legume crops.
If you had water and could grow clover or some legume during the summer season, the desired effect on the soil would be secured.
It grows to an immense height, and the fruit, which, although a legume, is of a rounded shape, and has but one seed, can be gathered only when it falls to the ground.