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Noun: Lens culinaris
  1. 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
    - lentil, lentil plant

Type of: legume, leguminous plant

Encyclopedia: Lens culinaris