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Legume vs Spurge - What's the difference?

legume | spurge |

As nouns the difference between legume and spurge

is that legume is the fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food while spurge is any plant of the species of genus Euphorbia that grow in England and exude a bitter milky juice which was formerly used as a purgative.

As a verb spurge is

to emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer during fermentation.

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

    spurge

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) espurge, espurgier, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any plant of the species of genus Euphorbia that grow in England and exude a bitter milky juice which was formerly used as a purgative.
  • Any plant of the genus Euphorbia .
    • Derived terms
    * * Japanese spurge * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * petty spurge * * * * *
    See also
    * ("spurge" on Wikipedia) * (Euphorbia) * (Euphorbia)

    Etymology 2

    Uncertain.

    Verb

    (spurg)
  • To emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer during fermentation.
  • * 1661 , W. Cartwright, Siedge
    • The body's somthing noysome: 'tis a stale one; / Good troth it spurgeth very monstrously.

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