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Definition of Cicer
1. Noun. Chickpea plant; Asiatic herbs.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cicer
Literary usage of Cicer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller (1906)
"The East Indians prepare from the seeds of the chick pea (Cicer arietinum ...
Cicer is the old Latin name, and the English "chick" is a corruption of the ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"... bilateral construction and have usually a profile position in nature, fall
away, but the leaf-spindle remains behind and becomes a thorn. Cicer ..."
3. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"Cicer arietinum, Linn., Wight Ir., t. 20; Bot. Mag., t, 2274. The seeds and
vinegar or acid exudation. Vernacular.—Ghana (Hind. ..."
4. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1849)
"... but these do not turn light and white. Wheat and Gram are merely burnt and
toasted, and not changed in look. " Gram (Cicer ..."
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