Noun | 1. | ![]() legume, leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae genus Oxytropis, Oxytropis - large widely-distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and racemose or spicate flowers each having a pea-like corolla with a clawed petal Oxytropis lambertii, purple loco, purple locoweed - tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple or pink to white flowers |