LENTIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lentil mean? 

• LENTIL (noun)
  The noun LENTIL has 3 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: LENTIL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENTIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("lentil" is a kind of...):

legume (the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils))

Holonyms ("lentil" is a part of...):

Lens culinaris; lentil; lentil plant (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fruit or seed of a lentil plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("lentil" is a kind of...):

legume (the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case)

Holonyms ("lentil" is a part of...):

Lens culinaris; lentil; lentil plant (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)

Sense 3

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lens culinaris; lentil; lentil plant

Hypernyms ("lentil" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Meronyms (parts of "lentil"):

lentil (round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food)

lentil (the fruit or seed of a lentil plant)

 Context examples 

It is found in red meat, fish, poultry, lentils, beans, and foods with iron added, such as cereal.

(Iron, NCI Dictionary)

They found the ashes scattered by the wind, but the peas and lentils had sprouted, and grown sufficiently above the ground, to guide them in the moonlight along the path.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It is found in whole-grain breads and cereals, liver, green vegetables, orange juice, lentils, beans, and yeast.

(Folate, NCI Dictionary)

A week in your cells, false brethren, a week of rye-bread and lentils, with double lauds and double matins, may help ye to remembrance of the laws under which ye live.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The term is now applied in a general way to many other related plants such as soybeans, peas, lentils, kidney beans, chickpeas (garbanzos), vetches and lupins.

(Bean, NCI Thesaurus)

The phenomenon could be exploited in beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils, peanuts, soybeans and other legumes.

(Scientists discover new antibiotic in tropical forest, National Science Foundation)

When Sunday came, and it was time for the girl to start, a feeling of dread came over her which she could not explain, and that she might be able to find her path again, she filled her pockets with peas and lentils to sprinkle on the ground as she went along.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)