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    LENS CULINARIS

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     I. (noun) 

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    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 fodderplay

    Synonyms:

    Lens culinaris; lentil; lentil plant

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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