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Noun: family Leguminosae
  1. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
    - Leguminosae, Fabaceae, family Fabaceae, legume family, pea family

Type of: rosid dicot family

Part of: order Rosales, Rosales

Nearest

family Laniidae
family Lanthanotidae
family Lardizabalaceae
family Laricariidae
family Laridae
family Lasiocampidae
family Latimeridae
family Lauraceae
family Lecanoraceae
family Lecythidaceae
family Leguminosae
family Leiopelmatidae
family Leitneriaceae
family Lemnaceae
family Lemuridae
family Lennoaceae
family Lentibulariaceae
family Lepadidae
family Lepidobotryaceae
family Lepidodendraceae
family Lepiotaceae