Word of the Day:
fabaceous
What It Means
Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.
Fabaceous in Context
“The fabaceous plants rank second only to the grasses in value as ministrants to the economy of animal life, for they produce food for man and beast in vast abundance, and generally speaking, the aliments derived from this family are of the highest character in point of nourishing power, all of them...”
Did You Know?
Borrowed from Latin fabaceus, from faba (“bean”). By surface analysis, Latin fab(a) + -aceous.
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