Pulse vs. Legume

Pulsenoun

(physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.

Pulsenoun

A beat or throb.

Pulsenoun

(music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music.

Pulsenoun

An autosoliton

Pulsenoun

Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.

Pulseverb

To beat, to throb, to flash.

Pulseverb

To flow, particularly of blood.

Pulseverb

To emit in discrete quantities.

Pulsenoun

Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.

Pulsenoun

The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.

Pulsenoun

Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.

Pulseverb

To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.

Pulseverb

To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.

Pulsenoun

(electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients);

Pulsenoun

the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart;

Pulsenoun

the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health

Pulsenoun

edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)

Pulseverb

expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically;

Pulseverb

produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses;

Pulseverb

drive by or as if by pulsation;

Pulse

In medicine, a pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the cardiac cycle (heartbeat) by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any place that allows an artery to be compressed near the surface of the body, such as at the neck (carotid artery), wrist (radial artery), at the groin (femoral artery), behind the knee (popliteal artery), near the ankle joint (posterior tibial artery), and on foot (dorsalis pedis artery).

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.