Friday, January 9, 2009

Legume. Bean or Vegetable?

If you are reading this, please email me if you think legume means bean or vegetable.

Currently there is a discussion in our household. I'm going to take this to the internet and confirm.... (that I'm right of course.)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

1 a: the fruit or seed of plants of the legume family (as peas or beans) used for food b: a vegetable used for food2: any of a large family (Leguminosae syn. Fabaceae, the legume family) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes (sense 3) or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers)3: a dry dehiscent one-celled fruit developed from a simple superior ovary and usually dehiscing into two valves with the seeds attached to the ventral suture