a. [f. as next + -OSE.] = next.
1693. in Phil. Trans., XVII. 764. Herbaceous and arborescent Plants, the greatest part of them pomiferous or leguminose.
1713. Petiver, ibid. XXVIII. 207. Leguminose or Pea-bloom Plants.
1837. Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sci. (1857), III. 252. We have the leguminose plants.
