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

legume - the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a two-valved case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attached to one edge of the valves

Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine, peanut - widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground

herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

chickpea plant, Cicer arietinum, Egyptian pea, chickpea - Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds

cluster bean, Cyamopsis psoraloides, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, guar - drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material

Glycine max, soja, soja bean, soya, soybean plant, soya bean, soybean, soy - erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia

wild pea - any of various plants of the family Leguminosae that usually grow like vines

Lens culinaris, lentil plant, lentil - widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder

Dolichos biflorus, horse grain, horse gram, Macrotyloma uniflorum, poor man's pulse - twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos

crazy weed, crazyweed, locoweed - any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock

bean plant, bean - any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods

pea plant, pea - a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds

sesbania - any of various plants of the genus Sesbania having pinnate leaves and large showy pealike flowers

vetch - any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants

moth bean, Phaseolus aconitifolius, Vigna aconitifolia - East Indian legume having hairy foliage and small yellow flowers followed by cylindrical pods; used especially in India for food and forage and soil-conditioning; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus

adsuki bean, adzuki bean, Phaseolus angularis, Vigna angularis - bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds

corkscrew flower, Phaseolus caracalla, snail bean, snail flower, snail-flower, snailflower, Vigna caracalla - perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus

golden gram, green gram, mung, mung bean, Phaseolus aureus, Vigna radiata - erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus

cowpea plant, Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata, black-eyed pea, cowpea - sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure

asparagus bean, Vigna sesquipedalis, Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, yard-long bean - South American bean having very long succulent pods

legume, leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae

chickpea, garbanzo - the seed of the chickpea plant

lentil - the fruit or seed of a lentil plant

pea - the fruit or seed of a pea plant

field pea - seed of the field pea plant

black-eyed pea, cowpea - fruit or seed of the cowpea plant

seedpod, pod - a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant

vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

pulse - edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)

bean, edible bean - any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae

lentil - round flat seed of the lentil plant

pea - seed of a pea plant

garbanzo, chickpea - large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried

black-eyed pea, cowpea - eaten fresh as shell beans or dried

protein - any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells; consist of polymers of amino acids; essential in the diet of animals for growth and for repair of tissues; can be obtained from meat and eggs and milk and legumes; "a diet high in protein"