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Legume vs Desmodium - What's the difference?

legume | desmodium |

As nouns the difference between legume and desmodium

is that legume is the fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food while desmodium is any member of the genus genus: Desmodium of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, containing mostly inconspicuous legumes but some with bright or large flowers.

legume

English

(wikipedia legume)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
  • Any of a large family (Leguminosae syn. Fabaceae) 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).
  • A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

    • Derived terms

    * leguminous

    desmodium

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any member of the genus of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, containing mostly inconspicuous legumes but some with bright or large flowers.

    • Hyponyms

    * (members of genus) tick-trefoil, tick clover, hitch hikers, beggar lice

    See also

    * ("desmodium" on Wikipedia) * ("desmodium" species on Wikimedia)