The seed of these plants, used as food.
Used in a Sentence
lentil
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lentil.
Editorial note
You can make a hearty lentil curry very cheaply, for example, if you buy the basic ingredients in bulk.
Examples15
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
The seed of these plants, used as food.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of lentil gathered in one view.
A small chocolate candy in an edible shell.
Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for lentil.
noun
The seed of these plants, used as food.
See also: lentil-plant, lens-culinaris
noun
A small chocolate candy in an edible shell.
See also: lentil-plant, lens-culinaris
noun
Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
See also: lentil-plant, lens-culinaris
Example sentences
You can make a hearty lentil curry very cheaply, for example, if you buy the basic ingredients in bulk.
He revolutionized the artisan, small scale chocolate industry by popularizing the use of indian lentil grinders (Santha, Ultra) for grinding cocoa.
He eats less than 25g of carbs a day, and lentil servings usually surpass that.
Nobody is holding a gun to your head and ordering you to go out to eat instead of eating lentil soup.
For example, you can make a giant pot of lentil soup that will have 10 servings for maybe $4 worth of ingredients.
Make lentil soup in the crock pot on Sunday's for lunch all week.
Steaks manufactured from soy bean and lentil are called [in the book] Soylent.
Soylent = soya + lentil steaks in the book.
For food I am living frugally, making lentil soup or pasta.
If you pay attention to the video, the door and window lentil's are prefab picked up and placed where they need to be and then printed over with additional cement.
Make Room!, which was a Soya / Lentil product meant to feed the masses, but the movie version Soylent Green had turned that into a mix consisting of human parts.
During the winter I often make turkey or lentil Chili.
Quote examples
Soylent is a portmanteau of "soybean" and "lentil", from the book that provides the story for the movie.
"Dalchini", BTW, is literally "lentil sugar".
It knows how to make lentil soup, so I was happy that I never need to look up recipe sites with awful UX and ads, but then it couldn't find a recipe for "Kalter Hund"/"Kalte Schnauze".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use lentil in a sentence?
You can make a hearty lentil curry very cheaply, for example, if you buy the basic ingredients in bulk.
What does lentil mean?
The seed of these plants, used as food.
What part of speech is lentil?
lentil is commonly used as noun.