#legume

• Alfalfa — International and commercial name for alfalfa or lucerne (Medicago sativa), a perennial plant in the legume family, widely cultivated as high-quality forage due to its rich content of proteins, minerals, and vitamins. In modern nutrition and phytotherapy, the young sprouts and leaves of alfalfa are used as invigorating dietary supplements owing to their detoxifying and remineralizing properties.
• Peanuts — Plural form for the compound noun 'alună-de-pământ' (or its non-hyphenated variant); designates peanuts (Arachis hypogaea), the underground fruits of a legume plant heavily used in the food industry due to their high content of oils, healthy fats, and proteins.
• Celery stalks — A commercial and gastronomic name currently used (borrowed from Spanish or Italian) for celery stalks or Pascal celery (Apium graveolens var. dulce). It is characterized by long, fleshy, crunchy, and aromatic stalks, widely used raw in salads, soups, detoxifying juices, or Mediterranean culinary dishes.
• Greengrocer's — A commercial unit specialized in the retail sale of fresh or preserved vegetables and fruits; a neighborhood store intended for marketing horticultural and agro-food products. Historically, the term originates from the acronym of a state-owned enterprise during the communist period, remaining active in the current vocabulary to describe specialized stalls or small grocery stores.
• Greengrocer — A person who manages, owns, or works as a salesperson in a greengrocer's shop; a merchant specialized in the retail sale of fresh or preserved vegetables and fruits. In an extended sense, the term describes a small entrepreneur in the local horticultural trade sector.
• Female greengrocer — A woman who manages, owns, or works as a salesperson in a greengrocer's shop; a female merchant specialized in the retail sale of fresh vegetables and fruits. The term defines the feminine presence in the local horticultural logistics and sales sector.
• Female greengrocer — A popular, diminutive, or very rare form used as a variant for 'aprozaristă'; a woman who sells or manages a small greengrocer's shop or a traditional vegetable and fruit stall in a local agro-food market.
• Arachis — A genus of annual or perennial herbaceous plants in the Fabaceae family, native to South America and remarkable for the phenomenon of geocarpy, a process by which flower stalks curve after fertilization and push their fruits into the soil to mature. The genus includes over 80 scientifically described species, the most economically and agriculturally significant being the species cultivated for peanuts.
• Arachis hypogaea — The scientific binomial name of the peanut (groundnut), an annual plant in the Fabaceae family intensively cultivated worldwide for its highly nutritious oilseeds. The species is remarkable because, following the pollination of its yellow aerial flowers, the stalk elongates downward, pushing the fertilized ovary into the ground, where the woody pods develop and shelter the seeds rich in lipids and proteins.
• Peanut — An annual herbaceous plant in the Fabaceae family, commonly known as the groundnut or peanut, cultivated worldwide in warm zones for its underground woody pods. The fruit (peanut) contains seeds exceptionally rich in fatty vegetable oils and proteins, holding massive economic importance in the agri-food industry, for peanut butter manufacturing, refined oil extraction, baking, and direct snacking.
• Stringy — Containing many threads, long, tough, and resistant fibers that are difficult to chew or separate; fibrous, filamentous. In botany and culinary terms, it describes vegetables or fruits that have passed their optimal maturity and developed woody filaments. Figuratively, it characterizes a lean person with dense, fibrous muscles, or behaviorally, a stubborn, rigid, difficult individual.