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Leguminosae

noun

A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae. Synonyms: Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, family Leguminosae, legume family, pea family.

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... (Leguminosae), a native of tropical America; introduced into the Philippines by the Spaniards probably in the first century of Spanish occupation; now thoroughly naturalized and widely distributed ...

— Filipino Popular Tales • Dean S. Fansler

... the action of natural selection. Certain plants excrete sweet juice, apparently for the sake of eliminating something injurious from the sap: this is effected, for instance, by glands at the base of the stipules in some Leguminosae, and at the backs of the leaves of the common laurel. This juice, though small in quantity, is greedily sought by insects; but their visits do not in any way benefit the plant. Now, let us suppose ...

— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

... cassia; a species of dalea, remarkable for its simple foliage; two species of melaleuca, one bearing a white, the other a crimson flower; an acacia; two species of the natural order convolvolaceae, namely, Ipomoea sp. and Ipomoea gracilis; and a species of the natural order leguminosae allied to galega; Erythrina indica or the coral-tree; several species of eucalyptus; a xanthorrhoea; and a great number of other curious plants which will appear whenever the catalogue of Mr. Cunningham's ...

— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia - Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 • Phillip Parker King

... complications of climbing plants, powerfully rivet the attention of the observer. Lower down, in the lighter forest soil, amidst numerous shrubs and climbers, the eye delights to dwell on the manifold forms of the stately palm, on the terebinthaceae, on the thickly-leaved balsam-yielding leguminosae, on the luxuriant laurels, on the pandaneae or the large-leaved heliconias, and on the solaneae, with their gigantic blossoms and thousands of flowers. Descending still further, the flat lands of the forest assume a dark and gloomy aspect. The massive foliage of trees ...

— Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests • J. J. von Tschudi

... shores of the main river the mass of the forest is composed, besides palms, of Leguminosae, or trees of the bean family, in endless variety as to height, shape of foliage, flowers, and fruit; of silk-cotton trees, colossal nut-trees (Lecythideae), and Cecropiae; the underwood and water-frontage consisting in great part ...

— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

... symbiosis is equalled by yet another case. The work of numerous observers has shown that the free nitrogen of the atmosphere is brought into combination in the soil in the nodules filled with bacteria on the roots of Leguminosae, and since these nodules are the morphological expression of a symbiosis between the higher plant and the bacteria, there is evidently here a case similar ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various

Words linked to "Leguminosae" : subfamily Papilionoideae, Swainsona, genus Centrolobium, locust, family Caesalpiniaceae, genus Swainsona, genus Arachis, legume, Arachis, subfamily Mimosoideae, bean plant, Papilionaceae, genus Brya, Hymenaea, Physostigma, Mimosoideae, Caesalpiniaceae, Coumarouna, Centrolobium, family Leguminosae, genus Coumarouna, Papilionoideae, genus Physostigma, family Fabaceae, family Papilionacea, genus Dipteryx, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, genus Tamarindus, genus Hymenaea, order Rosales, Fabaceae, genus Melilotus, Trifolium, Dipteryx, legume family, Rosales, genus Trifolium, Caesalpinioideae, rosid dicot family, bean, Mimosaceae, Brya, wild pea, pea family, leguminous plant, Tamarindus, family Mimosaceae, locust tree