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Legume vs Vegetables - What's the difference?

legume | vegetables |

As nouns the difference between legume and vegetables

is that legume is vegetable (the food) while vegetables is .

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

    vegetables

    English

    Noun

    (head)