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Leguminosae

noun

A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae. Synonyms: Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, family Leguminosae, legume family, pea family.

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... of shrubs and trees belonging to the family Leguminosae and the sub-family Mimoseae. The small flowers are arranged in rounded or elongated clusters. The leaves are compound pinnate in general (see fig.). In some instances, however, more especially in the Australian species, the leaflets are suppressed ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... known of any of the nuts. It is the Yeheb nut. It belongs to the order of Leguminosae and they tell us it is so sweet, having between 21 and 22 per cent of sugar, that the native Arab will desert his dates and rich diet, which is the ordinary diet of that region, and take to the Yeheb whenever it comes into fruit. This Yeheb shrub grows in the deserts of Italian Somaliland ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting - Washington, D. C. October 7 AND 8, 1920 • Various

... renders some kinds utterly sterile, as I have myself observed. The tendency to sterility from this cause runs in families; thus, according to Gaertner,[398] it is hardly possible to give too much manure to most Gramineae, Cruciferae, and Leguminosae, whilst succulent and bulbous-rooted plants are easily affected. Extreme poverty of soil is less {164} apt to induce sterility; but dwarfed plants of Trifolium minus and repens, growing on a lawn often mown and never manured, did not produce any seed. The temperature of the soil, ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin

Words linked to "Leguminosae" : Hymenaea, genus Brya, leguminous plant, genus Arachis, family Papilionacea, Caesalpiniaceae, Arachis, Mimosoideae, Coumarouna, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, locust tree, genus Swainsona, bean plant, Brya, genus Hymenaea, family Mimosaceae, Centrolobium, family Caesalpiniaceae, genus Centrolobium, Dipteryx, Caesalpinioideae, Papilionaceae, Mimosaceae, rosid dicot family, pea family, genus Tamarindus, genus Coumarouna, Papilionoideae, genus Trifolium, Trifolium, subfamily Papilionoideae, Physostigma, locust, Rosales, bean, Tamarindus, genus Dipteryx, genus Physostigma, subfamily Mimosoideae, order Rosales, genus Melilotus, legume, Swainsona, wild pea