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Definition of Nonlegumes
1. nonlegume [n] - See also: nonlegume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonlegumes
Literary usage of Nonlegumes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"Legumes may get their nitrogen from the air; nonlegumes must get their nitrogen
from the organic content of the soil. Thus limestone enables the legume to ..."
2. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1911)
"The alder, New Jersey tea, silver berry, buffalo berry, and sweet fern among the
nonlegumes and numerous native and ordinarily unnoticed legumes belonging ..."
3. Sustainable Agriculture in Print: Current Books edited by Barry Leonard (1997)
"Includes information on seeding and managing both legumes and nonlegumes, including
alfalfa, clovers, vetches, cowpea, winter pea, faba bean, barley, ..."
4. Biotechnology: Plant Nutrition: A Bibliography, January 1988-April 1993 by Janet Saunders (1994)
"... and Azorhizobium species in the roots of legumes and nonlegumes requires the
proper expression of plant genes and of both common and specific bacterial ..."
5. Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University by Cornell University, New York State College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station (1921)
"In the mixed cultures of legumes and nonlegumes. the yield of nitrogen in the
... crops was nearly as great as in the same nonlegumes grown alone. ..."
6. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1913)
"... it is suggested that one part of the orchard to include its various soil types
be planted with a cover crop of legumes and another part with nonlegumes. ..."
7. Educational Survey of Elizabeth City, North Carolina: Summary of Conclusions by United States Bureau of Education (1921)
"Clovers and alfalfa furnish better hog pastures than the nonlegumes. (Inspection
of the feeding of the pigs in the piggery.) Benefit of hog grazing; ..."
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