Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

leguminoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: legu-mi-noid
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, relating to, or resembling legumes.

Example Sentences

"The fertile leaves branch above their insertion; the one branch is quite similar to a sterile leaf, the other bears a leguminoid fructification (Fig. 125 f) which contains several sori enclosed by indusia."
"The kidneys are leguminoid bodies located immediately anterior to the hind limbs."
"The oldest pollen types generally accepted to be leguminoid closely resemble pollen produced by modern genera of Caesalpiniaceae."

Etymology

From Latin legūmen + -oid.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: legūmen

Inflected Forms

more leguminoid (comparative) most leguminoid (superlative)

Questions

What does leguminoid mean?: Of, relating to, or resembling legumes.
Where does leguminoid come from?: From Latin legūmen + -oid.

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