Definition of leguminous in English:
leguminous
adjective lɪˈɡjuːmɪnəsləˈɡjumənəs
Botany Relating to or denoting plants of the pea family (Leguminosae ). These have seeds in pods, distinctive flowers, and typically root nodules containing symbiotic bacteria able to fix nitrogen.
Compare with papilionaceous
Example sentencesExamples
- Still, no one had figured out how leguminous plants assimilate nitrogen.
- Tomato has an advantage if planting follows leguminous crops like groundnuts and beans which put nitrogen back into the soil.
- This leguminous climbing plant is commonly called the velvet bean.
- Golden peanut oil is a by-product of the leguminous plant native to Mexico.
- The beans are the seeds of the leguminous soybean plant.
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'relating to pulses'): from medieval Latin leguminosus, from legumen (see legume).
Rhymes
bituminous, luminous, numinous, voluminous
Definition of leguminous in US English:
leguminous
adjectiveləˈɡjumənəsləˈɡyo͞omənəs
Botany Relating to or denoting plants of the pea family (Leguminosae). They have seeds in pods, distinctive flowers, and typically root nodules containing symbiotic bacteria able to fix nitrogen.
Compare with papilionaceous
Example sentencesExamples
- This leguminous climbing plant is commonly called the velvet bean.
- Tomato has an advantage if planting follows leguminous crops like groundnuts and beans which put nitrogen back into the soil.
- Golden peanut oil is a by-product of the leguminous plant native to Mexico.
- Still, no one had figured out how leguminous plants assimilate nitrogen.
- The beans are the seeds of the leguminous soybean plant.
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense ‘relating to pulses’): from medieval Latin leguminosus, from legumen (see legume).