Round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food.
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The fruit or seed of a lentil plant.
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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. Synonyms:Lens culinaris, lentil plant.
... them. Then must thou fetch water in barrels and fill the four fountains; after which thou must take three hundred and threescore and six wooden bowls and crumble the cracknels therein and pour of the lentil-pottage over each and carry every monk and patriarch his bowl." Said Ala al-Din,[FN120] "Take me back to the King and let him kill me, it were easier to me than this service." Replied the old woman, "If thou do truly and rightly the service that is due from thee thou ... — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
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