"Legumen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... its seed;—the inconsistency of the terms thus enforced upon him being perfected in their inaccuracy, for a daisy is not one whit more composite than Queen of the meadow, or Jura Jacinth;[53] and 'legumen' is not Latin for a pod, but 'siliqua,'—so that no good scholar could remember Virgil's 'siliqua quassante legumen,' without overthrowing all ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin |
