Leguminosae


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Noun1.Leguminosae - a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean podsLeguminosae - a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plants
legume, leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
Arachis, genus Arachis - a genus of plants with pods that ripen underground (see peanut)
Brya, genus Brya - genus of prickly shrubs and small trees of the Caribbean region; source of a durable hardwood
Centrolobium, genus Centrolobium - a genus of Centrolobium
Coumarouna, Dipteryx, genus Coumarouna, genus Dipteryx - tropical American trees: tonka beans
genus Hymenaea, Hymenaea - genus of tropical American timber trees
genus Melilotus - Old World herbs: the sweet clovers
genus Swainsona, Swainsona - a genus of Australian herbs and subshrubs: darling peas
genus Trifolium, Trifolium - any leguminous plant having leaves divided into three leaflets
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
Mimosoideae, subfamily Mimosoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae
genus Physostigma, Physostigma - African woody vines: calabar beans
Caesalpiniaceae, family Caesalpiniaceae - spiny trees, shrubs, or perennial herbs, including the genera Caesalpinia, Cassia, Ceratonia, Bauhinia; commonly included in the family Leguminosae
Caesalpinioideae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae - alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae
locust tree, locust - any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
genus Tamarindus, Tamarindus - widely cultivated tropical trees originally of Africa
family Papilionacea, Papilionaceae - leguminous plants whose flowers have butterfly-shaped corollas; commonly included in the family Leguminosae
Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae
wild pea - any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines
bean plant, bean - any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods
order Rosales, Rosales - in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae
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Certain plants excrete a sweet juice, apparently for the sake of eliminating something injurious from their sap: this is effected by glands at the base of the stipules in some Leguminosae, and at the back of the leaf of the common laurel.
Too much confidence, however, must not be placed in the proportional results, as the small collections brought home by some other naturalists though in some respects confirming the results, plainly show that much remains to be done in the botany of this group: the Leguminosae, moreover, has as yet been only approximately worked out: -- Number of Species confined to the Number of Number of Galapagos species species Number Archipelago Total found in confined confined but found Name Number other to the to the on more of of parts of Galapagos one than the Island Species the world Archipelago island one island James 71 33 38 30 8 Albemarle 4 18 26 22 4 Chatham 32 16 16 12 4 Charles 68 39 29 21 8 (or 29, if the probably imported plants be subtracted.)
[ClickPress, Mon Oct 29 2018] Pigeon peas are the edible seeds belonging to legume or leguminosae family.
[USPRwire, Wed Sep 26 2018] Global Chickpeas Market: Overview Chickpeas are pulse crop and belongs to leguminosae family.
Evolutionary Biology of Acacia caven (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae): Infraspecifc Variationin Fruit and Seed Characters.
Habitat: A perennial shrub member of the Leguminosae family growing to about 3m in dry, stony ground in European and Mediterranean countries.
Orchidaceae, Pteridophyta and Leguminosae were among the most species-rich major plant groups in each plot, and Peperomia (Piperaceae: arboles, escandentes herbaceos o enredaderas, escandentes lenosos o lianas, hierbas terrestres y epifitas.
Tradicionalmente, la familia Leguminosae se ha dividido en tres subfamilias: Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoideae y Papilionoideae (Lewis et al., 2005).
It is a non-digestible polysaccharide complex and is soluble in water, which is derived from the dried exudates obtained from the stems and branches of natural strains of Acacia Senegal or Acacia seyal (family leguminosae) with a gummy texture.
La FR de las especies vegetales identificadas en las heces, se muestra en la TABLA II, los resultados indican que los ovinos consumieron el 95% de las especies presentes en el potrero, con predominio de la familia Leguminosae, presentaron los mayores valores de FR (P<0,01) las especies del genero Desmodium (38,03%) y Mimosa albida (15,79%), conformando mas de la mitad de las especies seleccionadas por los ovinos, con un total del 53,82%, y un grupo de leguminosas de menor importancia, tales como Galactia jussiaeana Kunth (4,02%) y Desmodium barbatum (L.) Benth (2,37%).