legume
/ˈlɛɡ.juːm/
legume noun: the fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
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Noun
legume (plural legumes)
- 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Legume
Legume
- A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
legume meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Kannada
legume in Hindi
- fruit or seed of leguminous plants
- दलहन dalhan, दाल dāl
legume in Tamil
- அவரையம், பயறு வகைத் தீவனம், புரதம் நிறைந்த பயிர்ச்செடி, அவரைக் கனி, இருபுறவெடிக்கனி, பயறுவகை
legume in Marathi
- fruit or seed of leguminous plants
- शिंबीफल śimbīphal, द्विदल धान्य dvidal dhānya, शेंगा śeṅgā, कायधान्य kāydhānya
legume in Kannada
- ಬೇಳೆ, ಬೇಳೆಕಾಳು, ದ್ವಿದಳಧಾನ್ಯ ಸಸ್ಯದ ಕಾಯಿ, ದ್ವಿದಳಧಾನ್ಯ ಸಸ್ಯದ ಬೀಜಕೋಶ, ದ್ವಿದಳಧಾನ್ಯ ಸಸ್ಯದ ಕಾಳು
More languagesFewer languages
- legume in Tagalog
- tapladbunga
- legume in Malay
- merbau
- legume in Persian
- بنشن
Examples of legume in a sentence
- Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
- Inoculated legume seed should not be mixed with dusted seed as the anticide will kill the bacteria.
- Garbanzo bean (Cicer arietinum L.), also called chickpea, is a large-seeded annual legume.
Synonyms of legume
Forms of legume
| plural | legumes |
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Origin of legume
Borrowed from French légume, from Latin legūmen (“bean”). Doublet of legumen.
Words formed from legume
Words that rhyme with legume
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- gloom
- home
- presume
- whom
- womb
- resume
- tomb
- abloom
- loom
- rheum
- backroom
- boardroom
- combe
- coomb
- entomb
- enwomb
- exhume
- flume
- grume
- kaboom
- Khartoum
- neume
- packing room
- shroom
- sloom
- subsume
- absume
- addoom
- anteroom
- barroom
- bitume
- brume
- chum
- cloom
- cwm
- desume
- fixing room
- foredoom
- fwoom
- glume
- illume
- khoum
- locker room
- raying room
- simoom
- spume
- thoom
- toom
Questions about legume
- What does legume mean?
- Legume means the fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
- What is legume in Hindi?
- Legume in Hindi is दलहन (dalhan), दाल (dāl). See Legume meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is legume?
- Legume can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce legume?
- Legume is pronounced /ˈlɛɡ.juːm/.
- What is the plural of legume?
- The plural of legume is legumes.
Words near legume in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: legume (page history and authors); Legume (page history and authors); legume (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); legume (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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