Noun: family Leguminosae
- A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae, Mimosaceae, Papilionaceae
"The family Leguminosae includes important food crops like peas and beans";
- Leguminosae, Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, legume family, pea family
Type of: rosid dicot family
Part of: order Rosales, Rosales