Examples of 'legume' in a sentence

Meaning of "legume"

A type of plant that includes beans, peas, and lentils, producing seeds within pods, and often cultivated for food sources due to their high protein content and nutritional value
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  • The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
  • Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).
  • A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

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Inoculate legume seeds just before seeding.
We are a strictly whole wheat and legume family.
Legume seeds and products derived thereof.
Peanuts are in reality a legume and should be avoided.
Legume plants serve as the natural host.
Oxytropis is a genus of plants in the legume family.
Andean legume with great industrial potential.
Peanuts are part of the legume or bean family.
Inoculate legume seed with rhizobium bacteria.
The fruit is a small bent legume pod.
Includes a legume high in iron in each food.
Geocarpum is a pulse belonging to the legume family.
The legume protein comprises soy protein.
The fruit is a small beaked legume pod.
The legume is intercropped with another crop.

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And it all started with the legume.
Legume plants serve as natural hosts.
The seed from the legume plant.
The fruit is a legume pod containing a single seed.
In fact peanuts are in the legume family.
The best legume to introduce is peeled red lentils.
The fruit is a dehiscent legume pod containing peas.
The legume is a natural source of levodopa.
The fruit is a coriaceous legume containing a single seed.
It is a legume that can be eaten with chapatis as well.
Rhizobium species associated with specific legume crops.
Legume crops had received appropriate legume inoculants.
The major advantages of a pure legume stand include.
Home legume breeding is allowed for most species.
Vicia dumetorum is a species of legume in the vetch genus.
The giant legume sits on top of a yellow crown.
It is a member of the legume lectin family.
The legume product may be exposed to gamma irradiation.
It may also survive on legume weeds.
The legume vegetables are annual crops.
The fruit is a red legume pod.
Plants in the legume family add nitrogen to the soil.
Tepary beans are the most drought tolerant legume.
The fruit is a legume pod containing six to eight seeds.
A prominent suture line surrounds the entire legume.
The fruit is a legume pod of varying size and shape.
A large part of them are of legume family.
This legume is a nutritious and palatable forage for livestock.
Role of ferrous leghemoglobin in legume nodules.
The fruit is a legume pod variable in size and shape.
The fruit is a hairless legume pod.
The fruit is a legume pod of varying shape containing seeds.
The fruit is a flattened legume pod.
The fruit is a small legume pod containing one seed.
Vigna trilobata is an annual or perennial legume.

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