kidney vetch
A medicinal plant, of species Anthyllis vulneraria, in the pea family.

kingwood
Dalbergia cearensis, a Brazilian tree having a violet-brown, hard texture.
The wood of this tree, used in cabinetmaking.

kingwoods
plural of kingwood

kissagrams
plural of kissagram

kissograms
plural of kissogram

kneegrow
Alternative spelling of negro.

kneegrows
plural of kneegrow

knobthorn
Senegalia nigrescens, a deciduous African tree found in savanna regions.

knobthorns
plural of knobthorn

koa
A large tree of species Acacia koa (family Fabaceae) which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree.

koas
plural of koa

koko
The tree Albizia lebbeck.

korroboree
Alternative form of corroboree.

korroborees
plural of korroboree

kosso
Alternative form of kousso.

kudzu
An Asian vine (several species in the genus Pueraria, but mostly Pueraria montana var. lobata, syn. Pueraria lobata in the US), grown as a root starch, and which is a notorious invasive weed in the United States.
A starch extracted from the root that is used in traditional East Asian medicine and cuisine.

kudzu vine
Synonym of kudzu

kudzus
plural of kudzu

kura clover
Trifolium ambiguum, a fabaceous flowering plant.

kuzu
Alternative form of kudzu.

kwila
Intsia bijuga

lablab
Any of the twining leguminous plants related to the bean, especially the hyacinth bean.

lablabs
plural of lablab

lady's fingers
plural of lady's finger

laryngograms
plural of laryngogram

leadplant
a tall deciduous shrub of species Amorpha canescens, in the pea family, native to North America, with very small purple flowers grouped in racemes.

leadplants
plural of leadplant

leadtree
Any of the genus Leucaena of flowering plants, native to the Americas.

leadtrees
plural of leadtree

lebbeck
Alternative form of lebbek.

lebbecks
plural of lebbeck

lebbek
The tree Albizia lebbeck.

lebbeks
plural of lebbek

legume
The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).
A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

legumes
plural of legume

lentil
Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
The seed of these plants, used as food.
A small chocolate candy in an edible shell.

lentils
plural of lentil

lespedeza
Any of many leguminous plants of the genus Lespedeza, including bush clover.

lespedezas
plural of lespedeza

lettergrams
plural of lettergram

libidibi
Synonym of divi-divi (“seed-pods of Caesalpinia coriaria”).

licorice milkvetch
Astragalus glycyphyllus, an herb native to Europe and West and Central Asia.

lignum
Dead wood, typically in the context of a substrate for lichens.

lignums
plural of lignum

lignumvitae
Alternative spelling of lignum vitae.

lima bean
A plant of species Phaseolus lunatus or the bean it yields.

liquorice
UK, Ireland, India, and South Africa standard spelling of licorice.

liquorices
plural of liquorice

lobster claw
Any tropical flowering plant of the genus Heliconia.
A kakabeak, any member of the two species of genus Clianthus.
Ectrodactyly marked by one or more missing or underdeveloped middle digits with cleaving of the hand or foot into two segments and syndactyly of the remaining digits.

locoweed
Any of several plants indigenous to the western United States, of genus Oxytropis or Astragalus.

locoweeds
plural of locoweed

locust
Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).
A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
A cicada.
A mainlander.
A dose of laudanum.

locust tree
A carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
Any of a number of similar looking trees in the genera Gleditsia and Robinia.
Any of a number of similar looking trees in the genera Gleditsia and Robinia.
An African locust bean tree (Parkia biglobosa).

locust trees
plural of locust tree

logwood
A tree of species Haematoxylum campechianum, in the legume family, of great economic importance and growing throughout Central America.
Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family.
Wood of any of these trees.

logwoods
plural of logwood

lucern
A lamp.

lucerne
Alfalfa.

lucerns
plural of lucern

lupine
Wolfish (all senses); wolflike.
Ravenous.

lupine clover
Any of species Trifolium lupinaster of clovers of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.

lupines
plural of lupine

lusern
Alternative form of lucern (“lynx”).

luserns
plural of lusern

luzern
Alternative spelling of lusern.

luzerns
plural of luzern

maash
Synonym of mung bean.

mallet poison
The plant Gastrolobium densifolium.

mamograms
plural of mamogram (non-standard spelling)

marblewood
The Australian tree Acacia bakeri.
The ebony Diospyros marmorata.

mare
An adult female horse.
A foolish woman.

mareograms
plural of mareogram

mares
plural of mare

maria
plural of mare (“lunar plain”).

marigrams
plural of marigram

marina
A harbour for small boats.

marinas
plural of marina

mat bean
Alternative form of moth bean.

medicks
plural of medick

medics
plural of medic

merbau
A tropical hardwood tree.

mesquit
Dated form of mesquite.

mesquite
Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed and bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour.
The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood.
Country or land dominated by mesquite trees.

mesquites
plural of mesquite

mesquits
plural of mesquit

methai
Alternative form of methi (“fenugreek”).

methi
fenugreek

mezquit
Dated form of mesquite.

mezquite
Dated form of mesquite.

mezquites
plural of mezquite

mezquits
plural of mezquit

milk vetch
Alternative spelling of milkvetch.

milk-vetch
Alternative spelling of milkvetch.

milkvetch
Any member of most species of flowering plants of the genus Astragalus.

milkvetches
plural of milkvetch

mimosites
plural of mimosite

miniritchie
Alternative form of minnerichi.

minni ritchi
Alternative form of minnerichi.

mock mesquite
Calliandra eriophylla, a shrub of the Southwest United States and Mexico.

monkeypod
Albizia saman, a flowering tree in the pea family, native to the neotropics.
Couroupita nicaraguarensis (syn. Lecythis nicaraguarensis) (coco de mono)
Lecythis ollaria (coco de mono)
Pithecellobium dulce (blackbead)
Senna petersiana (dwarf cassia)

monkeypods
plural of monkeypod

moon trefoil
Medicago arborea, a plant with yellow flowers.

mopane
A tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to southern Africa.
The mopane worm or mopane moth Gonimbrasia belina

mopanes
plural of mopane

mopani
Alternative form of mopane (“tree”).
Alternative form of mopane (“worm”).

mopanis
plural of mopani

morningmares
plural of morningmare

moss locust
rose-acacia (Robinia hispida)

moth bean
Any legume of species Vigna aconitifolia.

mpingo
Synonym of African blackwood

mucuna prurita
an illegitimate taxon according to the Vienna International Code of Botanical Nomenclature under Article 52.

mukwa
Rhodesia and Zimbabwe form of mukula.