To an agriculturalist, I am a harvested crop of lentils, chickpeas, or dry beans; to a physician monitoring a Valentine lover whose heart skips a beat, I am the rhythmic throb measured at the wrist. What word am I?
Pulse
'Pulse' refers to edible legume seeds as well as the tactile arterial palpitation of the heartbeat.
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