legume

Example Sentences

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Thousands of children may be avoiding peanut allergies thanks to research indicating that early exposure to—rather than avoidance of—the legume is key.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2025

Cultural staples like hummus, muhammara, guacamole and Ethiopian legume stews all fall under the purée umbrella.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

At the Shoreline Fuel Mart, the longtime home of the languishing legume, an employee answered a phone call from a Times reporter this week with a sigh, saying: “Everybody keeps calling us about this.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

They are mostly found in the legume family of which soybeans are the main source in the human diet.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2023

The peanut, a legume Aaron had no experience of beyond purchasing an occasional tooth-ful at the grocery-store, won half a dozen acres from Korean lespedeza, the crop he'd at first selected as his soil-improver there.

From Blind Man's Lantern by Schelling, George Luther