chickpea
1 synonym for chickpea, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A plant grown for its round edible seeds, which form in short, puffed-up pods.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
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garbanzo
Etymology
A calque of French pois chiche, from pois ("pea") and chiche, from Old French cice, from Latin cicer ("chickpea").
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