verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denote.

"As the Oxford Companion to Food points out, technically the word denotes simply a split pulse, but in India it has come to encompass all dried peas and beans, as well as dishes in which they are the principal ingredient – "of which," the authors explain, somewhat dauntingly, "there are least 60 kinds"."

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