leguminous plant

Questions about leguminous plant

What does leguminous plant mean?

leguminous plant means "an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae".

What is another word for leguminous plant?

Close synonyms include legume. 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 leguminous plant a common word?

leguminous plant 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.