1. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae, Mimosaceae, Papilionaceae
   "The legume family includes important food crops like peas and beans";
   - Leguminosae, family Leguminosae, Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, pea family

Type of: rosid dicot family

Part of: order Rosales, Rosales

Encyclopedia: Legume family