LEGUME FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legume family mean? 

• LEGUME FAMILY (noun)
  The noun LEGUME FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae

  Familiarity information: LEGUME FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGUME FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family

Hypernyms ("legume family" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "legume family"):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

bean; bean plant (any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods)

wild pea (any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines)

Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)

family Papilionacea; Papilionaceae (leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae)

genus Tamarindus; Tamarindus (widely cultivated tropical trees originally of Africa)

locust; locust tree (any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae)

Caesalpinioideae; subfamily Caesalpinioideae (alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae)

Caesalpiniaceae; family Caesalpiniaceae (spiny trees, shrubs, or perennial herbs, including the genera Caesalpinia, Cassia, Ceratonia, Bauhinia; commonly included in the family Leguminosae)

genus Physostigma; Physostigma (African woody vines: calabar beans)

Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)

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)

genus Trifolium; Trifolium (any leguminous plant having leaves divided into three leaflets)

genus Swainsona; Swainsona (a genus of Australian herbs and subshrubs: darling peas)

genus Melilotus (Old World herbs: the sweet clovers)

genus Hymenaea; Hymenaea (genus of tropical American timber trees)

Coumarouna; Dipteryx; genus Coumarouna; genus Dipteryx (tropical American trees: tonka beans)

Centrolobium; genus Centrolobium (a genus of Centrolobium)

Brya; genus Brya (genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region; source of a durable hardwood)

Arachis; genus Arachis (a genus of plants with pods that ripen underground (see peanut))

Holonyms ("legume family" is a member of...):

order Rosales; Rosales (in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae)