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• Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.From the entry fix
• Inoculated legume seed should not be mixed with dusted seed as the anticide will kill the bacteria.1973, Queensland Agricultural Journal, page 567. From the entry anticide
• Garbanzo bean (Cicer arietinum L.), also called chickpea, is a large-seeded annual legume.1958, Colorado Agricultural College, Technical Bulletin, volume 734, page 1. From the entry garbanzo bean
• Legumes thrive better on this soil than on any of those derived entirely from acid materials.1955, Soil Survey, page 35. From the entry succeed
• In some individuals various foods are flatulogenic, especially milk, legumes, and cabbage.1953, Modern Medicine Annual. From the entry flatulogenic
• Treatments to enhance storability of legume seeds under ambient storage.2010, Arun Arya, Analía Edith Perelló, Management of Fungal Plant Pathogens, page 334. From the entry storability
• This special foodstuff is the pod of an unusual legume.2006, National Research Council, “Long Bean (Vigna unguiculata)”, in Lost Crops of Africa, volume II (Vegetables), Washington, D.C.…. From the entry pencil-thin
• Legume flowers are emasculated by removing the corolla, staminal tube, and anthers with small forceps, leaving the pistil intact.1987, John Milton Poehlman, “Breeding Forage Crops”, in Breeding Field Crops (An AVI Book), 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Springer…. From the entry emasculate
• Wat is a sauce composed of legumes, including horsebeans, chickpeas, kidneybeans, and lentils pounded to a flour, and mixed with spices.1958, The Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and African Child Health. From the entry berbere
• Phytate or phytic acid is a main storage form of phosphate and is ubiquitously distributed in plant foods, especially cereal grains and legumes.2015, Cuong D. Tran et al., “The Potential for Zinc Stable Isotope Techniques and Modelling to Determine Optimal Zinc Supplementation”, in…. From the entry phytic
• Fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other plant foods, like nuts and legumes, are rich in polyphenols — antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds that some research suggests can support healthy aging.2024 September 2, Alice Callahan, “How to Eat for a Long and Healthy Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry polyphenol
• Natural and sown haylands also differ in the trophic structure of the animal population, with phytophagans and saprophagans about evenly divided in sown legumes and saprophagans dominating in natural grass.1981, “Soviet geography: Volume 22”, in American Geographical Society of New York. From the entry saprophagan

Meaning of legume

1. noun The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
2. 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).
3. 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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How do you use legume in a sentence?

Legume is used as a noun. For example: “Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.”

What is a short sentence with legume?

“This special foodstuff is the pod of an unusual legume.”

What does legume mean?

Legume means the fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.