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LENTIL PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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; lentil plant
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Hypernyms ("lentil plant" is a kind of...):
legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)
Meronyms (parts of "lentil plant"):
lentil (round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food)
lentil (the fruit or seed of a lentil plant)