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Culinarily speaking, it would depend on the species of legume and your own personal preferences. If you think of a particular legume as sweet and use it as you would other culinary fruit, then you would call it a fruit; if you use it in a savory vegetable dish, you would call it a vegetable.
Botanically speaking, they are either plants in the family Fabaceae or the fruits of these plants (like peanuts, soybeans, lentils, etc.). So yes, they are technically a fruit.
Charley Lowe
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∙ 13y agoWell, I believe that Legumes are fruits. A legume fruit is a Fruitthat develops from a simple Carpeland usually Dehiscence_(botany) (opens along a seam) on two sides.
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