LENS CULINARIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lens culinaris mean? 

• LENS CULINARIS (noun)
  The noun LENS CULINARIS 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 fodder

  Familiarity information: LENS CULINARIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENS CULINARIS (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 ("Lens culinaris" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "Lens culinaris"):

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

lentil (the fruit or seed of a lentil plant)