Guar vs. Legume — What's the Difference?

The guar or cluster bean, with the botanical name Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, is an annual legume and the source of guar gum. It is also known as gavar, gawar, or guvar bean.

A legume () is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. When used as a dry grain, the seed is also called a pulse.

An annual plant (Cyamopsis tetragonolobus) in the pea family, cultivated chiefly in semiarid regions of South Asia as a forage crop and especially for its seeds, from which guar gum is obtained. Also called cluster bean.

A plant of the pea family.

An annual legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba), used as a food for cattle and humans.

A pod of such a plant, which splits into two valves with the seeds attached to one edge of the valves.

Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material

Such a pod or seed used as food. Peas, beans, and lentils are legumes.

(botany) The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.

(botany) 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).

(botany) A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.

An erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae

The fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a two-valved case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attached to one edge of the valves

The seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)