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Definition of Chickpea

1. Noun. The seed of the chickpea plant.

2. Noun. Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds.

3. Noun. Large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried.

Definition of Chickpea

1. n. A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram.

Definition of Chickpea

1. Noun. An annual Asian plant (''Cicer arietinum'') in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods. ¹

2. Noun. A seed of this plant, often used as a food. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chickpea

1. an Asian herb [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chickpea

chickenries chickenry chickens chickeny chickenyard chickenyards chickeree chickhood chicklet chicklets

chicklike chickling chickories chickory chickpea (current term) chickpea plant chickpeas chicks chickweed chickweed phlox

chickweed wintergreen chickweeds chicky chicle chicle gum chiclero chiclero ulcer

Literary usage of Chickpea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"Applied externally, it expels the dead foetus, as also worms which breed in ulcers and in the ears. CHAP. 72. THE chickpea AND THE ..."

2. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"When maize is a staple article of import it should be rigorously inspected at the first port of entry and all spoiled grain rejected. LATHYRISM (chickpea ..."

3. Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: On the Care of the Aged and Maximianus by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind (1988)
"The white chickpea is hot and humid to the first degree. Others say it is dry. The red variety is hotter and stronger than the white, much more nourishing ..."

4. Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: On the Care of the Aged, & Maximianus, Elegies ...by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind (1988)
"The white chickpea is hot and humid to the ... The black chickpea breaks up stone, the white is astringent and purges the kidneys, liver, and spleen. ..."

5. New Folklore Researches: Greek Folk Poesy by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (1896)
"'Now a tale I'll tell to you, Of a bean and chickpea too.' ONCE upon a time there was a lazy fellow, and when he was asked to go and do a day's work, ..."

6. Bible flowers and flower lore (1885)
"... of the Book of Kings is neither more nor less than the so-called " chickpea ... as the word implies, and the chickpea which was so called on account of ..."

7. DNA Fingerprinting and Plants (Including Pathogens): Sponsored CRIS/ICAR by Andrew Kalinski (1994)
"... DNA sequences were used to detect inter- and intraspecific polymorphisms in a leguminous crop plant (chickpea, Cicer arietinum) and its wild relatives. ..."

8. Second Year Latin by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge, Moses Grant Daniell, James Bradstreet Greenough (1899)
"Cicero, -onis [cicer (chickpea) -fo, orig. a nickname, possibly from excrescences on the nose], M., a name of a Roman family from Arpinum. ..."

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