legume family

Questions about legume family

What does legume family mean?

legume family means "a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae".

What is another word for legume family?

Close synonyms include Leguminosae, family Leguminosae, Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, pea family. 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 family a common word?

legume family 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.