LEGUMINOUS • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Leguminous

... whose numerous representatives encumber this continent, likewise furnishes the negro natives a food that is nearly as indispensable to them as the gourou or the products of the baobab—another valuable tree and certainly the most widely distributed one in torrid Africa. This leguminous tree, which is as yet but little known in the civilized world, has been named scientifically Parkia biglobosa by Bentham. The negroes give it various names, according to the tribe; among the Ouloffs, it is the houlle; among the Mandigues, naytay; in Cazamance (Nalon language), it is nayray; ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 • Various

... turned under, and with it went a store of fertility to fatten the land. Cow peas were sowed in all the corn land in 1897, and the rule of the farm is to sow corn-fields with peas, crimson clover, or some other leguminous plant. As my land is divided almost equally each year between corn and oats, which follow each other, it gets a cover crop turned under every two years over the whole of it. Great quantities of manure are hauled upon the oat stubble in the early spring, ...

— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter