legume

See also légume

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French légume, from Latin legūmen (“bean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɪˈɡjuːm/, /ˈlɛɡjuːm/

Noun

legume (plural legumes)

1. The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
2. Any of a large family (Leguminosae syn. Fabaceae) 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).
3. A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

Derived terms

• leguminous

Translations

fruit or seed of leguminous plants

• Armenian: ընդավոր (hy) (ëndavor)
• Basque: egoskari (eu), lekale (eu)
• Catalan: llegum (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豆类 (cmn) (dòulèi)

• Czech: luštěnina (cs) f
• Dutch: peul (nl) c, peulvrucht (nl) c
• Finnish: herne (fi), papu (fi)
• French: légume (fr)
• German: Hülsenfrucht (de) f
• Greek: όσπριο (el) (ósprio) n

• Icelandic: belgaldin (is) n
• Ido: legumo (io)
• Marathi: शिंबीफल (mr), द्विदल धान्य (mr), शेंगा (mr), कायधान्य (mr)
• Polish: strąk (pl) m
• Russian: бобовый (ru) (bobóvyj) m, стручковый (ru) (stručkóvyj) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: махуна (sh) f

  Latin: mahuna (sh) f

• Spanish: legumbre (es) f
• Swedish: baljväxt (sv)

member of Leguminosae family

• Finnish: hernekasvi (fi)
• German: Leguminose (de) f, Hülsenfrüchtler (de) m
• Hungarian: hüvelyes (hu)
• Malay: merbau (ms)
• Polish: roślina strączkowa (pl) f

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: махунарка (sh) f

  Latin: mahunarka (sh) f

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin legūmen.

Noun

legume m (plural legumi)

1. peas, beans, lentils and similar pulses

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Romanian

Noun

legume f pl, plural of legumă

1. legumes