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Definition of lentil
1 : a widely cultivated Eurasian annual leguminous plant (Lens culinaris) with flattened edible seeds and leafy stalks used as fodder
2 : the seed of the lentil
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Groups that help orphaned children in Haiti will receive the meals, which organizers said consist of rice, lentils, dried vegetables and nutritional powder.
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Combine ground beef with lentils, cooked beans, or lean turkey meat (go 50/50).
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Mr. Ben-Oni told me recently over lentils in his office, which was strewn with empty Red Bull cans.
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Fragrant saffron rice warmed, and a pot of lentil soup with carrots and turmeric simmered on the stove.
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Almost every weekday, tons of lentils, salt, oil and wheat flour are loaded onto an Ilyusin-76 cargo plane at an airport in Jordan.
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Our meal automatically started with a complimentary basket of lentil chips and a pair of dipping sauces, one a zippy, bright green mint, the other a purple tamarind, whose sweetness complemented the likable blast of salt from the chips.
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His charity, which hosts events for volunteers to package a nonperishable rice-and-lentil casserole mix, had been part of the 15th anniversary of Sept. 11 commemoration in New York last year.
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People eat out more often, and prefer Western-style junk food such as burgers and pizza over traditional lentil and vegetable meals.
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Origin and Etymology of lentil
Middle English, from Anglo-French lentille, from Latin lenticula, diminutive of lent-, lens
LENTIL Defined for English Language Learners
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: a type of flat, round seed that is related to the pea and is eaten as a vegetable
LENTIL Defined for Kids
lentil
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: the flattened round edible seed of a plant originally of southwestern Asia
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