chickpea
noun/ˈtʃɪkpiː/
/ˈtʃɪkpiː/
(especially British English) (North American English usually garbanzo, garbanzo bean)
- a hard round seed, like a light brown pea, that is cooked and eaten as a vegetableTopics Foodc2Word Originearly 18th cent. (earlier as chiche-pease): from late Middle English chiche (from Old French chiche, cice, from Latin cicer ‘chickpea’) + pease ‘peas’.
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