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leguminous

[ UK /lɛɡjˈuːmɪnəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to or consisting of legumes

How To Use leguminous In A Sentence

  • Golden peanut oil is a by-product of the leguminous plant native to Mexico.
  • We saw two or three dozen grass-trees to-day, also some quandong and currajong trees, and camped again in scrubs where there was only a few leguminous bushes for the camels to eat. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
  • Zollernia paraensis, a leguminous tree, Theobroma grandiflorum, a fruit similar to cacao called cupuaçu, and Cordia goeldiana, a common timber tree, are all well-known in eastern Pará. Tapajós-Xingu moist forests
  • Several genera of rhizobial bacteria live symbiotically with leguminous plants and are by far the most important fixers of nitrogen on land, whereas cyanobacteria dominate the process in freshwaters as well as in the ocean. Global material cycles
  • Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the root nodules of leguminous plants (such as peas and clover) take in nitrogen direct from the air and pass it on to the plant, both feeding the plant and enriching the soil.
  • · Using leguminous food plants (such as cowpea or peanuts) in crop rotations; 5. Pearl Millet: Subsistence Types
  • The rhizobial bacteria form nodules on the roots of leguminous trees and other plants: nitrogen fixation occurs inside these nodules through a symbiotic process that involves both bacteria and plant. Chapter 5
  • It may be generally recommended as a manure for all crops, except, perhaps, the so-called leguminous crops, such as clover, beans, peas, &c, whose ability to obtain nitrogen for themselves renders the application of expensive artificial nitrogenous manures unadvisable. Manures and the principles of manuring
  • Still, no one had figured out how leguminous plants assimilate nitrogen.
  • The pods of many leguminous species (e.g. sisau, khayer, areri and the siris species) are brittle and split easily once they have been dried in the sun. 4.1 Nursery establishment
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