Legume vs. Vegetable

Legume vs. Vegetable — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Legume and Vegetable

Legumenoun

The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.

Vegetablenoun

Any plant.

Legumenoun

Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).

Vegetablenoun

A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense.

Legumenoun

A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

Vegetablenoun

The edible part of such a plant.

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Legumenoun

an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae

Vegetablenoun

A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.

Legumenoun

the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a two-valved case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attached to one edge of the valves

Vegetableadjective

Of or relating to plants.

Legumenoun

the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)

Vegetableadjective

Of or relating to vegetables.

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Vegetablenoun

edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

Vegetablenoun

any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower

Vegetableadjective

of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants;

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