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chickpea

noun
🔊/ˈtʃɪkpiː/
🔊/ˈtʃɪkpiː/
 (especially British English)
(North American English usually garbanzo, garbanzo bean)
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  1. a hard round seed, like a light brown pea, that is cooked and eaten as a vegetable鹰嘴豆（浅棕色的硬圆豆，可烹食）
    Topics Foodc2
    Word Originearly 18th cent. (earlier as chiche-pease): from late Middle English chiche (from Old French chiche, cice, from Latin cicer ‘chickpea’) + pease ‘peas’.