英语释义
1. the fruit or seed of plants of the legume family (such as peas or beans) used for food
2. a vegetable used for food
3. any of a large family (Leguminosae synonym Fabaceae, the legume family) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes (sense 3) or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (such as peas, beans, or clovers)
4. a dry dehiscent one-celled fruit developed from a simple superior ovary and usually dehiscing into two valves with the seeds attached to the ventral suture pod
5. a type of plant (such as a pea or a bean plant) with seeds that grow in long cases (called pods) also these seeds eaten as food
6. any of a large group of plants (as peas, beans, and clover) with fruits that are pods which split into two parts and root nodules containing bacteria that fix nitrogen
7. the fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food
8. any plant of the family Leguminosae