legume

See also: légume

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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) (əndavor)
• Basque: egoskari (eu), lekale (eu)
• Catalan: llegum m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豆類 (zh), 豆类 (zh) (dòulèi), 莢果 (zh), 荚果 (zh) (jiáguǒ)

• Czech: luštěnina f
• Dutch: peul (nl) c, peulvrucht (nl) c
• Finnish: herne (fi), papu (fi)
• French: légume (fr), légumineuse (fr), gousse (fr) f
• German: Hülsenfrucht (de) f
• Greek: όσπριο (el) n (ósprio)
• Icelandic: belgaldin n
• Ido: legumo (io)

• Khmer: សិម្ពិកូល​ (sempi’kool), សណ្ដែក (km) (sɑndaek)
• Marathi: शिंबीफल (śimbīphal), द्विदल धान्य (dvidal dhānya), शेंगा (śeṅgā), कायधान्य (kāyadhānya)
• Polish: strąk (pl) m
• Portuguese: legume (pt) m
• Russian: бобо́вый (ru) m (bobóvyj), стручко́вый (ru) m (stručkóvyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: махуна f

  Latin: mahuna (sh) f

• Spanish: legumbre (es) f
• Swedish: baljväxt
• Tagalog: tapladbunga
• Turkish: baklagil

member of Leguminosae family

• Finnish: hernekasvi (fi)
• German: Leguminose f, Hülsenfrüchtler (de) m
• Hebrew: קטנית‎ (he) f (kitnith)
• Hungarian: hüvelyes (hu)
• Khmer: សិម្ពិកូល​ (sempi’kool)
• Malay: merbau

• Polish: roślina strączkowa f
• Portuguese: leguminosa (pt) f
• Romanian: leguminoasă f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: махунарка f

  Latin: mahunarka f

Further reading

• legume on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• emulge

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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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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin legūmen.

Noun

legume m (plural legumes)

1. legume (fruits of leguminous plants)
2. (by extension) any vegetable

Synonyms

• (vegetable): verdura, hortaliça

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Romanian

Noun

legume f pl

1. plural of legumă