Guar vs. Legume

Guarnoun

An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.

Guarnoun

drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material

Guar

The guar or cluster bean, with the botanical name Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, is an annual legume and the source of guar gum. It is also known as gavar, gawar, or guvar bean.

Legumenoun

The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.

Legumenoun

Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).

Legumenoun

A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

Legumenoun

A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

Legumenoun

The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.

Legumenoun

an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae

Legumenoun

the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a two-valved case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attached to one edge of the valves

Legumenoun

the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)

Legume

A legume () is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. When used as a dry grain, the seed is also called a pulse.