How to Use leguminous in a Sentence

leguminous

adjective

• Low-growing leguminous plants like clovers are commonly used as a living mulch beneath taller crops, but garden beans are also known to benefit their neighbors.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
• Growing to a similar height is the mimosa or silk tree (Albizia julibrissin), another leguminous species.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 16 Apr. 2026
• In facultative endosymbiosis, the symbiont can live independently, as in the case of nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium bacteria in the root nodules of leguminous plants.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
• Cothron explains that white clover (Trifolium repens) is a leguminous nitrogen-fixing plant that attracts beneficial pollinators, especially honeybees.
  — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 26 June 2026
• Not long afterward, 5-MeO-DMT was detected in Anadenanthera peregrina, a leguminous tree from the Caribbean and South America.
  — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026