leguminoid

comparative more leguminoid · superlative most leguminoid

1. Of, relating to, or resembling legumes.

   The kidneys are leguminoid bodies located immediately anterior to the hind limbs.

   1895 October, Alvin Davison, “A Contribution to the Anatomy and Phylogeny of Amphiuma means (Gardner)”, in C[harles] O[tis] Whitman, Edward Phelps Allis, Junr., editors, Journal of Morphology, volume XI, number 2, Boston, Mass.: Ginn & Company, page 395

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   The fertile leaves branch above their insertion; the one branch is quite similar to a sterile leaf, the other bears a leguminoid fructification (Fig. 125 f) which contains several sori enclosed by indusia.

   1880, K[arl Anton Eugen] Prantl, translated by S[ydney] H[oward] Vines, An Elementary Text-Book of Botany. […], London: W[illiam] Swan Sonnenschein & Allen, […], page 157

   The oldest pollen types generally accepted to be leguminoid closely resemble pollen produced by modern genera of Caesalpiniaceae.

   2001, M[ichael] K. Macphail, R[obert] S[outhey] Hill, “Fossil Record of Acacia in Australia: Eocene to Recent”, in Anthony E. Orchard, Annette J.G. Wilson, editors, Flora of Australia, volume 11A (Mimosaceae, Acacia part 1), Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study; Melbourne, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, page 20