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chick-pea

chick-pea is the alternative spelling of chickpea.

Meaning of chickpea

Noun

chickpea (plural chickpeas)

  1. An annual plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods.
  2. A seed of this plant, often used as a food.
    • Chickpea is valued for its nutritive seeds with high protein content.

Forms of chick-pea

pluralchick-peas

Questions about chick-pea

What is chick-pea the alternative spelling of?
Chick-pea is the alternative spelling of chickpea.

Words near chick-pea in the dictionary

  1. chick-flickish
  2. chick-flicks
  3. chick-friend
  4. chick-friends
  5. chick-lit
  6. chick-pea
  7. chick-peas
  8. chick-weed
  9. chick-weeds
  10. chickabiddies
  11. chickabiddy

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