Legume vs Dhaincha - What's the difference?
legume | dhaincha |
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.
The legume Sesbania bispinosa , native to Asia and North Africa.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 9, author=Keith Bradsher, title=Paying in Pollution for Energy Hunger, work=New York Times
, passage=The main material is dhaincha , a weed commonly grown in India to restore nitrogen to depleted soils. }}
As nouns the difference between legume and dhaincha
is that legume is vegetable (the food) while dhaincha is the legume sesbania bispinosa , native to asia and north africa.legume
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* leguminousdhaincha
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