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legume
📅 Updated:2026-09-02
🕒 Created:2026-09-02
🆔 ID:111595
Description
Legumes are plants in the pea family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants. When used as a dry grain for human consumption, the seeds are also called pulses. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consumption, but also as livestock forage and silage, and as soil-enhancing green manure. Legumes produce a botanically unique type of fruit—a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides.
