legume

Other forms of legume

plural

legumes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about legume

What does legume mean?

legume means "an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in legume?

legume has 2 syllables: leg-ume. The stress falls on "leg". In IPA it is /ˈlɛɡˌjum/.

What is another word for legume?

Close synonyms include leguminous plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is legume a common word?

legume is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.