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leguminous, a.|lɪˈgjuːmɪnəs|
[f. L. legūmin-, legūmen + -ous.]
1. Of or pertaining to pulse; of the nature of pulse.
1656in Blount Glossogr. 1767A. Young Farmer's Lett. to People 45 Raising leguminous crops like field pease. 1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 498 This practice will by no means preclude the cultivation of leguminous crops. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 591 Meat, leguminous vegetables and bread contain the same alkali.
2. Bot. Of or pertaining to the family Leguminosæ, which includes peas, beans, and other plants which bear legumes or pods.
1677Grew Anat. Plants iv. iii. v. (1682) 187 The Cod of the Garden Bean (and so of the rest of the Leguminous kind) opens on one side. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. iii. (1794) 39 The greater part of the leguminous or pulse tribe. 1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 446 Linnæus..asserts..that ‘among all the leguminous or papilionaceous tribe there is no deleterious plant to be found’. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 88 Myrospermum, a spurious Leguminous genus. 1854Hooker Himal. Jrnls. I. ii. 50 A most elegant leguminous tree. 1890A. R. Wallace Darwinism 24 Climbing leguminous plants escape both floods and cattle.
b. Resembling what pertains to a leguminous plant.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 97/1 The top [of Goats Rue] is branched, upon each stands many leguminous, or pulse⁓like flowers. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Sainfoin, They are leguminous Flowers, White and sometimes Red. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 87 Another and a more invariable character [of the Pea tribe] is to have a leguminous fruit. |