adjective
- not belonging to or characteristic of the legume family of plants
Usage: botanical
Examples
- Corn and wheat are nonleguminous crops that require nitrogen fertilizer.
- The farmer rotated nonleguminous plants with beans to improve soil fertility.
- Most grasses are nonleguminous plants that cannot fix nitrogen from the air.
- Rice is a nonleguminous grain that grows in flooded fields.
- The garden contained both leguminous and nonleguminous vegetables.
- Nonleguminous trees like oak and maple dominated the forest.