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Lentil

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Noun

1. lentil

round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food

2. lentil

the fruit or seed of a lentil plant

3. lens culinaris, lentil, lentil plant

widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lentil

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noun
1. 
a small annual leguminous plant, Lens culinaris, of the Mediterranean region and W Asia, having edible brownish convex seeds
2. 
any of the seeds of this plant, which are cooked and eaten as a vegetable, in soups, etc

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Lentil

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noun
1. 
an Old World plant (Lens culinaris) of the pea family with small, edible seeds shaped like biconvex lenses
2. 
the seed of this plant

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Lentil

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n.
1. A leguminous plant (Lens culinaris) native to southwest Asia, having flat pods containing lens-shaped, edible seeds.
2. The round, flattened seed of this plant.

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