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linze — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • lens noun A curved piece of glass or plastic that bends light to focus or spread it out, used in glasses, cameras, and telescopes.
  • lentil noun A small, disc-shaped edible seed from a legume plant, commonly dried and used in soups and stews.

Senses

linze is used for these senses in English:

  • lens (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.
  • lentil Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
  • lentil The seed of these plants, used as food.

lens — full definition

  1. noun A curved piece of glass or plastic that bends light to focus or spread it out, used in glasses, cameras, and telescopes.
  2. noun The clear part inside the eye that focuses light onto the retina.
  3. noun A particular way of looking at or interpreting something.

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