grão-de-bico — meaning in English
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English meaning
- chickpea noun An annual plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods.
Senses
grão-de-bico is used for these senses in English:
- chickpea A seed of this plant, often used as a food.
- garbanzo An edible pulse (Cicer arietinum), of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or Papilionoideae, with white or purple-blue flowers and small feathery leaves on both sides of the stem and pods containing two to three peas.
chickpea — full definition
- noun An annual plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods.
- noun A seed of this plant, often used as a food.