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legume vs lentil

lentil vs legume

legume and lentil both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
legume Yes No No No
lentil Yes No No No
As nouns, lentil is a hyponym of legume; that is, lentil is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than legume:
  • legume: the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils)
  • lentil: round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food
Other hyponyms of legume include pulse, bean, edible bean, pea, chickpea, garbanzo, black-eyed pea, cowpea.
As nouns, lentil is a hyponym of legume; that is, lentil is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than legume:
  • legume: an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
  • lentil: 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
Other hyponyms of legume include Arachis hypogaea, peanut, peanut vine, chickpea, chickpea plant, Cicer arietinum, Egyptian pea, cluster bean, Cyamopsis psoraloides, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, guar, Glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean, soybean plant, wild pea, Lens culinaris, lentil plant, Dolichos biflorus, horse grain, horse gram, Macrotyloma uniflorum, poor man's pulse, crazy weed, crazyweed, locoweed, bean, bean plant, pea, pea plant, sesbania, vetch, moth bean, Phaseolus aconitifolius, Vigna aconitifolia, adsuki bean, adzuki bean, Phaseolus angularis, Vigna angularis, corkscrew flower, Phaseolus caracalla, snail-flower, snail bean, snail flower, snailflower, Vigna caracalla, mung, mung bean, mung bean plant, Phaseolus aureus, Vigna radiata, black-eyed pea, cowpea, cowpea plant, Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata, asparagus bean, Vigna sesquipedalis, Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis, yard-long bean.
As nouns, lentil is a hyponym of legume; that is, lentil is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than legume:
  • legume: the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case
  • lentil: the fruit or seed of a lentil plant
Other hyponyms of legume include chickpea, garbanzo, pea, field pea, black-eyed pea, cowpea.
legume (noun) lentil (noun)
the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food
an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae 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
the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case the fruit or seed of a lentil plant
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