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Definition of Legume family
1. Noun. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Family
Member holonyms: Legume, Leguminous Plant, Arachis, Genus Arachis, Brya, Genus Brya, Centrolobium, Genus Centrolobium, Coumarouna, Dipteryx, Genus Coumarouna, Genus Dipteryx, Genus Hymenaea, Hymenaea, Genus Melilotus, Genus Swainsona, Swainsona, Genus Trifolium, Trifolium, Family Mimosaceae, Mimosaceae, Mimosoideae, Subfamily Mimosoideae, Genus Physostigma, Physostigma, Caesalpiniaceae, Family Caesalpiniaceae, Caesalpinioideae, Subfamily Caesalpinioideae, Locust, Locust Tree, Genus Tamarindus, Tamarindus, Family Papilionacea, Papilionaceae, Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae, Wild Pea, Bean, Bean Plant
Group relationships: Order Rosales, Rosales
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legume Family
Literary usage of Legume family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Productive Plant Husbandry: A Text-book for High Schools, Including Plant by Kary Cadmus Davis (1917)
"Members of the legume family, if supplied with the nitrogen-gathering bacteria,
will not only secure their supply of nitrogen from the air, but will also ..."
2. Science of Plant Life: A High School Botany Treating of the Plant and Its by Edgar Nelson Transeau (1919)
"The legume family. The legumes received their name FIG. 186. ... There are several
reasons for the great importance of the legume family: (i) beans, ..."
3. Bacteria in Relation to Country Life by Jacob Goodale Lipman (1908)
"Over and above all these advantages, common to all green-manuring crops, those
of the legume family possess the additional advantage of adding nitrogen to ..."
4. Bacteria in Relation to Country Life by Jacob Goodale Lipman (1908)
"Over and above all these advantages, common to all green-manuring crops, those
of the legume family possess the additional advantage of adding nitrogen to ..."
5. ...Nature-study Agriculture: A Textbook for Beginners by William Thompson Skilling (1920)
"But when plants of the legume family were tested, it was discovered that they
... Why plants of the legume family can grow in poor soil Nitrogen- fixing ..."
6. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1900)
"... plant that can make use of this infinite store of nitrogen floating above you.
You say, what is a legume? Well the pulse a legume family is the biggest ..."
7. Productive Farm Crops by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1916)
"State the important facts about the legume family. '2. How is the pea family
separated from the rest? 3. From what does it derive its name, legume? 4. ..."
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