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Lentil   /lˈɛntəl/   Listen
Lentil

noun
1.
Round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food.
2.
The fruit or seed of a lentil plant.
3.
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.  Synonyms: Lens culinaris, lentil plant.



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"Lentil" Quotes from Famous Books



... light bobbed toward them. In half an hour Thea was in her big feather bed, drinking hot lentil soup, and almost before the soup ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... country owned a spot that appeared to me about as large as one of Epicurus's atoms. When I looked down upon Peloponnesus, and beheld Cynuria, {176a} I reflected with astonishment on the number of Argives and Lacedemonians who fell in one day, fighting for a piece of land no bigger than an Egyptian lentil; and when I saw a man brooding over his gold, and boasting that he had got four cups or eight rings, I laughed most heartily at him: whilst the whole Pangaeus, {176b} with all its mines, seemed no larger than ...
— Trips to the Moon • Lucian


Words linked to "Lentil" :   leguminous plant, lentil plant, legume


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