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noun

Legume n.

(Bot.) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea. Note: In the latter circumstance, it differs from a siliqua, in which the seeds are attached to both sutures. In popular use, a legume is called a pod, or cod; as, pea pod, or peas cod.

pl. The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... almost leathery with age, leaves closing at night and in rainy weather; Flowers papilionaceous, yellow, borne upon the end of an axillary peduncle. After flowering, the forming-pod is, by the elongation of its stalk, pushed into the soil, beneath which it grows and ripens; Legume, or pod indehiscent, woody and veiny, one to four-seeded; Seed, with a reddish coat, the embryo with two large, fleshy cotyledons, and a very short, nearly straight, radicle. Figure 1 represents a portion ...

— The Peanut Plant - Its Cultivation And Uses • B. W. Jones

... ruin the peaches, making injuries very similar to that caused by the plum curculio. The only satisfactory method of control of stink bug injury is to eliminate the host plants on which they live, such as most legume plants, blackberry briars and other brambles. In an orchard, in a grass sod, stink bug is no problem, but where we have soy beans or cow peas or something like that growing in the orchard, or ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting • Various

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