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Meaning of legume | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
leˈɣume̝

Definitions

  1. legume (the fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food)
    masculine
  2. legume (leguminous plant)
    masculine
  3. legume (pod)
    masculine
  4. other vegetables and greens which are consumed after cooking
    broadly, masculine

Equivalents

Català llegum
Čeština luštěnina
Ελληνικά όσπριο
English Legume
Esperanto guŝo
עברית קטנית
Հայերեն ընդավոր
Italiano legume
ქართული პარკოსანი
ខ្មែរ សណ្ដែក
Latina legumen
Bahasa Melayu merbau
Nederlands peul peulvrucht
Polski strąk
Português legume leguminosa
Română leguminoasă
Türkçe bakliyat

Examples

“et darmos ende cada anno por vosso mayordomo, a que devemos a proveer mentre coller o pan et o vinno, meo de vinno et de noçes, de castanas, de peros, de legumia, et de çhousa, et de lino et de triigo, et de sirgo, et de gaado mayor et de cuba se o vendermos, et terça de çeveyra et de millio, et dorgio, et levarmolo todo por nos a vossa grangia dAmbas Mestas”

and so we should give each year to your steward, whom we should provide as he is taking the bread and the wine, half of wine and of walnuts, of chestnuts, of peers, of legume, of the products of the garden, of flax, of wheat, of silk, of oxen, of sold wine; and a third of fodder, of millet, of barley; and we should deliver all of it at your farm of Ambas Mestas

“oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas”

eight fanegas of legume, both beans and peas

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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