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chick pea

chick pea is the alternative form 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 form of?
Chick pea is the alternative form of chickpea.

Words near chick pea in the dictionary

  1. chick friend
  2. chick friends
  3. chick lit
  4. chick magnet
  5. chick magnets
  6. chick pea
  7. chick peas
  8. chick with a dick
  9. chick'n
  10. chick'ns
  11. chick*n

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chick pea (page history and authors); chickpea (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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