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The plant that fixes its own fertilizer and still gets called a side dish.
means A plant or its pod/seed from the pea-and-bean family, many of which host nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots.
from From French légume, from Latin legumen, meaning 'pulse' or 'leguminous plant' — itself likely tied to legere, 'to gather or pick,' since these were crops you harvested by hand, pod by pod. So the name may simply mean 'the gathered thing,' a quiet tribute to centuries of people bent over rows of beans.
- nitrogen fixing
- roots host bacteria that pull nitrogen from air
- peanut mislabel
- a legume, not a true nut
- soil booster
- farmers rotate them in to naturally fertilize fields
- protein punch
- lentils rival meat in protein per gram