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Borrowed from French légume, from Latin legūmen (“bean”). Doublet of legumen.

legume (plural legumes)

  1. (botany) The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
    Hyponym: pulse
  2. (botany) 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).
  3. (botany) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

fruit or seed of leguminous plants

member of Fabaceae (Leguminosae) family

pod dehiscent into two pieces

Legumes

From Old Galician-Portuguese legume (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin legūmen.

legume m (plural legumes)

  1. legume (the fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food)
    • 1285, Miguel Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 1114:
      et darmos ende cada anno por vosso mayordomo, a que devemos a proveer mentre coller o pan et o vinno, meo de vinno et de noçes, de castanas, de peros, de legumia, et de çhousa, et de lino et de triigo, et de sirgo, et de gaado mayor et de cuba se o vendermos, et terça de çeveyra et de millio, et dorgio, et levarmolo todo por nos a vossa grangia dAmbas Mestas
      and so we should give each year to your steward, whom we should provide as he is taking the bread and the wine, half of wine and of walnuts, of chestnuts, of peers, of legume, of the products of the garden, of flax, of wheat, of silk, of oxen, of sold wine; and a third of fodder, of millet, of barley; and we should deliver all of it at your farm of Ambas Mestas
    • 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:
      oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas
      eight fanegas of legume, both beans and peas
  2. legume (leguminous plant)
  3. legume (pod)
  4. (by extension) other vegetables and greens which are consumed after cooking

From Latin legūmen.

legume m (plural legumi)

  1. legume (peas, beans, lentils and similar pulses)
    Hyponyms: cece, fagiolo, fava, lenticchia, pisello

From Old Galician-Portuguese legume, from Latin legūmen.

legume m (plural legumes)

  1. legume (fruits of leguminous plants)
  2. (by extension) any vegetable
    Synonyms: verdura, hortaliça, vegetal

legume f pl

  1. plural of legumă