🇬🇧🇨🇳 legume - 豆类 : English Lesson

Meaning of "legume" ("豆类"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A legume is a type of plant that grows its seeds inside a pod. Common legumes include beans, peas, lentils, and peanuts. Legumes are super healthy, full of protein, and even help the soil by adding nitrogen to it.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

For Halloween, I dressed up as a giant legume. No one got it, but I felt fabulous.

Dad said legumes make you strong. I ate five and still couldn’t open the pickle jar.

I told my bean it was a legume, and now it thinks it’s famous.

My dog buried a legume in the backyard. He’s starting a bean farm.

My legume collection is growing. I now have 47 beans and one lentil.

At dawn, a child picked a green pod and whispered, "a legume!" She split the pod: the legume hid round peas like small beads. She held the legume up, and her grandma smiled, boiling the legume for soup. They ate, hands sticky, and the child clapped: the legume had become dinner, warm and simple.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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