SC - Murri question

[LrdRas@aol.com]

LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 'made from different herbs and legumes.' Does legumes refer more correctly to
> favas and garbanzos? Or more generally to things that grow on vines?

More generally even than that!

In English, and from a scientific standpoint, legumes are all those
nitrogen-fixing seed-poddy things like beans, peas, lentils, etc.

However, in most of the Romance languages, AFAIK, the term just means
vegetables of any kind.

Interestingly enough, the meaning of the Latin term "puls" has changed
in an odd way too. Originally it seems to have referred to just about
anything that could be, or was, ground and made into porridge or
polenta: beans, peas, lentils, and grains. Nowadays grains no longer
seem to be so classified, but the peas, etc., remain classified as pulses.
  
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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