lentil

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The end farthest from the lentil was sensibly thicker than that adhering to it, and terminated in a point.

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

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  • They sound like a load of lentil-eating environmentalists to me. —  EQMM,March-April2006
  • Buridan asks to see—the new spectacles; not the lady's melons—and Heytesbury explains how Abbot Richard had reasoned that if ‘lentil-shaped’ glasses help a man see close at hand, a concave shape must help him see farther away. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • Elle had come over to my apartment to cook for me in her latest attempt to convert me to vegetarianism -- lentil soup and French bread. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 02 - February 1999
  • Another day he might have lentil-DHAL or CHANNA {FN12-6} curry with vegetables. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • After a relishable meal of coarse rice, lentil-DHAL, and curry of potatoes with raw bananas, I retired to a small hut adjoining the courtyard. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
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  1. Middle English, from Old French lentille, from Vulgar Latin *lentīcula, from Latin lenticula, diminutive of lēns, lent-, lentil.

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  1. from Middle English lentil, from Old French lentille, French lentille = Spanish lenteja = Portuguese lentilha = Italian lenticchia, from Latin lenticula, a lentil, from lens (lent-), a lentil: see lens. Cf. lenticula, lenticule.
 

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