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LENTIL PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lentil plant mean? 

LENTIL PLANT (noun)
  The noun LENTIL PLANT has 1 sense:

1. 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 fodderplay

  Familiarity information: LENTIL PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LENTIL PLANT (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lens culinaris; lentil; lentil plant

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)


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