lentil
Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
Other meanings
The seed of these plants, used as food.
“make a lentil stew”
A small chocolate candy in an edible shell.
A kind of
- legume
Related words
- lentilist
- soylent
- beluga lentil
- Le Puy lentil
- sea-lentil
- lentil shell
- lentil-weaver
- lentil-weaving
- Puy lentil
- water lentil
- lentil-like
- lentilish
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "lenticula".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “lentil” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.