leguminoid

English

Etymology

From Latin legūmen +‎ -oid.

Adjective

leguminoid (comparative more leguminoid, superlative most leguminoid)

1. Of, relating to, or resembling legumes.
   • 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 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.

   • 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:

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

   • 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:

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