LEGUME FAMILY


Meaning of LEGUME FAMILY in English

the large plant family Leguminosae (or Fabaceae), typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, trees, and vines having usually compound leaves, clusters of irregular, keeled flowers, and fruit in the form of a pod splitting along both sides, and including beans, peas, acacia, alfalfa, clover, indigo, lentil, mesquite, mimosa, and peanut.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .