which is usually made with just one lentil. Because they resemble tiny small lenses, the name “lentil”—a tiny little ...

(Each resembled a lentil, or lens in Latin.) Mostly used to help older people read, these lenses focused on objects between 12 and 20 inches away from the eye. Nearsightedness, a more common ...

Related: 30 Recipes for That Bag of Lentils in Your Pantry Lentils (lens culinaris), also called pulses, are a type of legume ...