legume family

1. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods;
   Divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae;
   Mimosaceae;
   Papilionaceae (synset 111767245)
   is a type of: rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plants
   member holonym:

   • legume, leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
   • arachis, genus arachis - a genus of plants with pods that ripen underground (see peanut)
   • brya, genus brya - genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region; source of a durable hardwood
   • centrolobium, genus centrolobium - a genus of Centrolobium
   • coumarouna, dipteryx, genus coumarouna, genus dipteryx - tropical American trees: tonka beans
   • genus hymenaea, hymenaea - genus of tropical American timber trees
   • genus melilotus - Old World herbs: the sweet clovers
   • genus swainsona, swainsona - a genus of Australian herbs and subshrubs: darling peas
   • genus trifolium, trifolium - any leguminous plant having leaves divided into three leaflets
   • family mimosaceae, mimosaceae - family of spiny woody plants (usually shrubs or small trees) whose leaves mimic animals in sensitivity to touch; commonly included in the family Leguminosae
   • mimosoideae, subfamily mimosoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae
   • genus physostigma, physostigma - African woody vines: calabar beans
   • caesalpiniaceae, family caesalpiniaceae - spiny trees, shrubs, or perennial herbs, including the genera Caesalpinia, Cassia, Ceratonia, Bauhinia; commonly included in the family Leguminosae
   • caesalpinioideae, subfamily caesalpinioideae - alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae
   • locust, locust tree - any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
   • genus tamarindus, tamarindus - widely cultivated tropical trees originally of Africa
   • family papilionacea, papilionaceae - leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae
   • papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae
   • wild pea - any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines
   • bean, bean plant - any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods
   belongs to: order rosales, rosales - in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae
   same as: fabaceae, family fabaceae, family leguminosae, leguminosae, pea family

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