leguminous
/lɪˈɡjuːmɪnəs
/adjective 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.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.
- Tomato has an advantage if planting follows leguminous crops like groundnuts and beans which put nitrogen back into the soil.
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'relating to pulses'): from medieval Latin leguminosus, from legumen (see legume).
Rhymes
- have (or with) an eye to (or for or on) the main chance
- have (or with) one's fingers (or hand) in the till
- have other (or bigger) fish to fry
- haver
- haverbread
- havercake
- have regard to
- haverel
- haverer
- haver grass
- Haverhill
- havermeal
- haversack
- Haversian canal
- Haversian gland
- Haversian lamella
- Haversian space
- Haversian system
- haversin
- haversine
- haversine formula
- have seen better days
- have seen it all before
- have shot one's bolt
- have skin in the game