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Lentil
//ˈlɛntəl// noun
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Noun
- 1 Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
- 2 round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food wordnet
- 3 The seed of these plants, used as food.
"make a lentil stew"
- 4 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
- 5 A small chocolate candy in an edible shell.
"An enhanced focus on the brand's iconic color palette and the use of different shapes and sizes of M&M'S lentils across all touchpoints to prove that all together, we're more fun"
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- 6 the fruit or seed of a lentil plant wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English lentile, from Old French lentille from Latin lenticula, diminutive of lēns, from a pre-Indo-European substrate source shared by German Linse, Ancient Greek λάθυρος (láthuros) and Lithuanian lęšis. Doublet of lenticula.
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