1. round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: legume • Part Holonyms: lentil plant, Lens culinaris 2. the fruit or seed of a lentil plant • Hypernyms: legume • Part Holonyms: lentil plant, Lens culinaris 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 • Syn: lentil plant, Lens culinaris • Hypernyms: legume, leguminous plant
