Legume vs. Vegetable
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.
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.
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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