PULSEPULSE
PULSE, n.2 [Qv. from L. pulsus, beaten out, as seeds; or Heb. and Ch. פול, a bean, from פלה, to separate.]
Leguminous plants or their seeds; the plants whose pericarp is a legume, as beans, peas, &c. – Milton. Dryden.
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