Definitions for chickpea

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chickpea chick·pea

Spelling: [chik-pee]

IPA: /ˈtʃɪkˌpi/

Chickpea is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in chickpea (accehikp).

Definitions for chickpea

noun

1. Also called garbanzo. a widely cultivated plant, Cicer arietinum, of the legume family, bearing pods containing pealike seeds.
2. the seeds of this plant, used extensively as a food.

Origin of chickpea

1540-50; alteration of chich-pea, equivalent to late Middle English chiche (Middle French ≪ Latin cicer chickpea) + pea¹

Examples for chickpea

Passerini found traces of boron in the stems of chickpea plants, while in 1892 Brand determined boric acid in the ash of beer.