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Lentil

noun

Round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food.

The fruit or seed of a lentil plant.

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.

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"Lentil" Quotes from Famous Books

... and crush and cook 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 ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton

... The lentil soup is prepared in the same way as the bean soup, only substituting lentils for beans. A good combination is that of lentils and rice. The nutritive qualities of the lentils are not sufficiently known in this country, but all books on dietetics ...

— The Italian Cook Book - The Art of Eating Well • Maria Gentile

... 1/4 of an inch across. It resembles a tiny bird's-nest with eggs in it. At first it looks like a cottony knot, closely covered; its apex is closed by a membrane, then its covering is thrown off, and the apparent tiny eggs are merely smaller envelopes, called the peridiola. These are lentil-shaped and pale, and are fastened to the inside of the covering by a long cord, which can be seen only through ...

— Among the Mushrooms - A Guide For Beginners • Ellen M. Dallas and Caroline A. Burgin

... chalky gravel, particles of earth, fragments of sticks, a few scraps of moss and especially juniper-catkins and needles. The Serignan nests, installed in Helix aspersa, have almost the same protective materials. I see bits of gravel, the size of a lentil, and the catkins and needles of the brown-berried juniper predominating. Next come the dry excretions of the Snail and a few rare little land-shells. A similar jumble of more or less everything found near the nest forms, as ...

— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre

... a loss is sustained by the impoverishment of the ground, which must occasionally lie inactive to recover its fertility. There is absolutely no provision whatever for the cattle in the shape of root-crops or hay, but they trust entirely to the bruised barley-straw and such seeds as the cotton and lentil. At this season the Carpas district possessed an important advantage in the variety of wild vegetables which afforded nourishment for man and beast; the valleys teemed with wild artichokes and with a variety of thistles, whose succulent stems were a favourite ...

— Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879 • Sir Samuel W. Baker

Words linked to "Lentil" : lentil plant, Lens culinaris, legume, lentil soup, leguminous plant