leghemoglobin

noun
leg·​he·​mo·​glo·​bin
variants: or chiefly British leghaemoglobin \ ˈleg-​ˈhē-​mə-​ˌglō-​bən How to pronounce leghaemoglobin (audio) \

Medical Definition of leghemoglobin

: a plant hemoglobin found in the root nodules of legumes and reported to function as an oxygen-carrying pigment in symbiotic nitrogen fixation