legume
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
legume /ˈlɛgjuːm/
▶noun
- 1 a leguminous plant grown as a crop.
- 2 a seed, pod, or other edible part of a leguminous plant, used as food.
■ Botany the long seed pod of a leguminous plant.
– origin C17: from Fr. légume, from L. legumen, legere ‘to pick’.
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