legume

1. An erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae (synset 111767937)
   is a type of:

   • herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
   • climber - a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants
   subtypes:

   • arachis hypogaea, peanut, peanut vine - widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
   • chickpea, chickpea plant, cicer arietinum, egyptian pea - Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds
   • cluster bean, cyamopsis psoraloides, cyamopsis tetragonolobus, guar - drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material
   • glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean, soybean plant - erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
   • wild pea - any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines
   • lens culinaris, lentil, lentil plant - widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder
   • dolichos biflorus, horse grain, horse gram, macrotyloma uniflorum, poor man's pulse - twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos
   • crazy weed, crazyweed, locoweed - any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock
   • bean, bean plant - any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods
   • pea, pea plant - a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
   • sesbania - any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pea-like flowers
   • vetch - any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants
   • moth bean, phaseolus aconitifolius, vigna aconitifolia - East Indian legume having hairy foliage and small yellow flowers followed by cylindrical pods; used especially in India for food and forage and as a soil conditioner; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
   • adsuki bean, adzuki bean, phaseolus angularis, vigna angularis - bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds
   • corkscrew flower, phaseolus caracalla, snail bean, snail flower, snail-flower, snailflower, vigna caracalla - perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
   • mung, mung bean, mung bean plant, phaseolus aureus, vigna radiata - erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
   • black-eyed pea, cowpea, cowpea plant, vigna sinensis, vigna unguiculata - sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
   • asparagus bean, vigna sesquipedalis, vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, yard-long bean - South American bean having very long succulent pods
   belongs to: fabaceae, family fabaceae, family leguminosae, legume family, leguminosae, pea family - a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
   has: legume - the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case
   same as: leguminous plant
2. The fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case (synset 111768471)
   is a type of: pod, seedpod - a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
   subtypes:

   • chickpea, garbanzo - the seed of the chickpea plant
   • lentil - the fruit or seed of a lentil plant
   • pea - the fruit or seed of a pea plant
   • field pea - seed of the field pea plant
   • black-eyed pea, cowpea - fruit or seed of the cowpea plant
   is a part of: legume, leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
3. The seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) (synset 107724543)
   is a type of: veg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
   subtypes:

   • pulse - edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)
   • bean, edible bean - any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food
   • lentil - round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food
   • pea - seed of a pea plant used for food
   • chickpea, garbanzo - large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried
   • black-eyed pea, cowpea - eaten fresh as shell beans or dried
   substance holonym: protein - any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells; consist of polymers of amino acids; essential in the diet of animals for growth and for repair of tissues; can be obtained from meat and eggs and milk and legumes

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