Fabaceae
Lentil
Vicia lens
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Vicia
Pets and kids
- CatsNot sure
- DogsNot sure
- KidsNot sure
Why
Cats: Not sure
We found no reliable source on this plant for cats, so we don't call it safe. Keep it out of reach until you have checked with your vet.
Dogs: Not sure
We found no reliable source on this plant for dogs, so we don't call it safe. Keep it out of reach until you have checked with your vet.
Kids: Not sure
We found no reliable source on this plant for young children, so we don't call it safe. Keep it out of reach until you have checked with a doctor or poison control.
Ate some? Call your vet or the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center at (888) 426-4435 (a fee may apply). For a child, call Poison Help at 1-800-222-1222 (US). If they are struggling to breathe or collapse, call 911. Don't give anything by mouth unless a vet or poison expert tells you to.
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Common names
By language (103)
- aeb
- عدس
- Albanian
- Thjerrëza
- Amharic
- ምስ'ር
- Arabic
- عدس, العدس, نبات العدس
- Aragonese
- Lentella, Lentellera, Lentilla, Lentillera
- arz
- عتس
- Asturian
- Llenteyera
- av
- ТӀипало
- azb
- مرجیمک
- Azerbaijani
- Mərcimək
- Bangla
- মসুর ডাল
- Basque
- Dilista, Ilar xabal, Ziziri
- Belarusian
- Сачавіца харчовая
- bo
- སྲན་ལེབ་ཆུང་ངུ།
- Bulgarian
- Обикновена леща
- Burmese
- ပဲနီလေး, ပဲရာဇာ
- Cantonese
- 蘭度豆
- Catalan
- Llentilla, Llentia, Llenties, Llentilles
- ce
- Маьрджимаьк
- Central Kurdish
- نیسک
- Chinese
- 兵豆, 小扁豆, 小金扁豆, 扁豆, 滨豆, 鸡碗豆, 鸡豌豆, 濱豆
- Croatian
- Leća
- csb
- Jôdnô soczewica
- cv
- Ясмăк
- Czech
- Čočka jedlá, Čočka kuchyňská, Čočka
- Danish
- Linser, Ægte linse, Ægte_Linse
- dsb
- Sok
- Dutch
- Linze, Linzen
- English
- Lentil, Lentil plant
- Estonian
- Lääts
- Filipino
- Lentehas
- Finnish
- Kylvövirvilä, Linssi, Rokkalinssi
- French
- Lentille cultivée, Lentille, Lentille cultivee
- frr
- Lins
- Galician
- Lentella
- German
- Linse, Küchen-Linse, Küchenlinse, Speiselinse, Tellerlinse
- grc
- Φακός ἐσθιόμενος
- Greek
- Φακή, Φακές, ΦΑΚΗ
- Gujarati
- મસુર
- Hausa
- Lentil
- Hebrew
- עדשה תרבותית, עדשים
- Hindi
- मसूर, मलका मसूर, मसूर दाल, मसूर धुली, मसूर साबुत
- hsb
- Sok
- Hungarian
- Főzeléklencse, Lencse, Termesztett lencse
- Icelandic
- Linsubaun
- Interlingua
- Lenticula
- Irish
- Lintile
- Italian
- Lenticchia
- Japanese
- レンズマメ, ヒラマメ, レンズ豆, 扁豆
- Javanese
- Lentil
- Kannada
- ಮಸೂರ ಅವರೆ
- Kazakh
- Azıqtıq jasımıq, Азықтық жасымық, ازىقتىق جاسىمىق
- Korean
- 렌즈콩, 렌틸콩
- Kurdish
- Nîsk, نیسک
- lah
- مسور
- Latvian
- Lēcas
- Lithuanian
- Valgomasis lęšis, Lęšiai, Paprastasis lęšis
- Luxembourgish
- Lëns
- Macedonian
- Леќа
- Malay
- Lentil
- Marathi
- मसूर
- Mongolian
- Сэвэгзарам
- mwl
- Gametas
- mzn
- مرجی
- nah
- Caxtillān pitzāhuac etl
- Nepali
- मुसुरो
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Linse
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Linser
- Occitan
- Lentilha cultivada
- Odia
- ମସୁର
- Persian
- عدس
- Polish
- Soczewica jadalna, Soczewica
- Portuguese
- Lentilhas, Lentilha
- Quechua
- Lantrihas
- Romanian
- Linte
- Russian
- Чечевица пищевая, Чечевица обыкновенная, Чечевица культурная
- sat
- ᱢᱤᱥᱨᱤ ᱫᱟᱹᱞ
- Serbian
- Сочиво, Sočivo
- Serbian (Latin)
- Leća
- shn
- ထူဝ်ႇလႅင်
- Sindhi
- مھري دال
- Sinhala
- මසූර්
- Slovak
- Šošovica jedlá
- Slovenian
- Navadna leča, Zelena leča, Leča
- Somali
- Misir
- Spanish
- Lenteja, L. culinaris, Lenteja verde
- Swahili
- Mdengu
- Swedish
- Lins, Linser, Röda linser
- Tajik
- Наск
- Tamil
- மைசூர்ப் பருப்பு, மைசூர் பருப்பு
- Tatar
- Ясмык
- Thai
- ถั่วเลนทิล
- Turkish
- Mercimek, Kırmızı mercimek, Yeşil mercimek
- Turkmen
- Enter ýüzi
- Ukrainian
- Сочевиця, Чечевиця
- Uyghur
- يېسمۇق
- vec
- Lente
- Vietnamese
- Đậu lăng
- Walloon
- Lintile
- Welsh
- Corbysen corbys, Corbysen
- wuu
- 小扁豆
- Yiddish
- לינזן
- zza
- Mercu
Synonyms
- Cicer lens (L.) Willd.
- Ervum lens L.
- Lathyrus lens (L.) Bernh.
- Lens culinaris Medik.
- Lens culinaris subsp. esculenta Briq.
- Lens esculenta Moench
- Lens lens (L.) Huth
- Lentilla lens (L.) W.Wight
- Orobus lens (L.) Stokes
Photos
Photo: ChriKo, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: ChriKo, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Nathalie Labranche, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: ChriKo, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
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Photo: Jiří Růžek, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.