Meaning of chickpea in English:

noun

• 1A round yellowish edible seed, widely used as a pulse.

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  • ‘Cut back and focus on getting more of your protein from vegetables like chickpeas and lima beans.’
  • ‘The soup is packed with healthy ingredients like garlic, carrots, chickpeas, and corn.’
  • ‘Almonds, walnuts, kidney beans, lentils, chickpeas and sunflower seeds are healthy options.’
  • ‘For instance, instead of high fat chicken nuggets, try lean pieces of chicken or pulses such as beans or chickpeas.’
  • ‘It's cold and tangy, a delicious vegetarian stew of eggplant, chickpeas, and onion in a chunky tomato sauce.’

• 2The Old World plant of the pea family which bears chickpeas.

  Cicer arietinum, family Leguminosae

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  • ‘The pods in the spaced chickpea plants were fully exposed to light for most of the day.’
  • ‘A different mineral nutrient solution was applied to each of four groups of chickpea plants from the time of transplanting to the sand mixture (7 d after imbibition).’
  • ‘The chickpea is a delicate, graceful plant that branches near the ground and is usually about 2 feet high.’
  • ‘Seeds of chickpea and maize were surface-sterilized for 30 minutes, pre-germinated in the dark in a Petri dish with adequate water, and were then planted in quartz sand.’
  • ‘Pulse crops, particularly lentil, chickpea and dry bean varieties similarly show the impact of public breeding work.’