Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
legume .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
legume .
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Examples
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'Butterfly-aceous' from its flower, and 'Pod-aceous' from its seed; -- the inconsistency of the terms thus enforced upon him being perfected in their inaccuracy, for a daisy is not one whit more composite than Queen of the meadow, or Jura Jacinth; [53] and 'legumen' is not Latin for a pod, but
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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The winters in the South are mild, grasses, grains, legumen can be sown in the fall and grow abundantly in the winter, upon which the dairy cow and mutton sheep may thrive and prosper.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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Again, certain vegetables, as beans, peas, and peanuts, are rich in a kind of proteid which is called _legumen_.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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'siliqua,' -- so that no good scholar could remember Virgil's 'siliqua quassante legumen,' without overthrowing all his Pisan nomenclature.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550
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