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chickling vetch

chickling vetch noun: a plant with edible seeds similar to peas and chickpeas of the species Lathyrus sativus, used as a famine food but causing lathyrism if eaten in large amounts or over a long time.

Noun

chickling vetch (uncountable)

  1. A plant with edible seeds similar to peas and chickpeas of the species Lathyrus sativus, used as a famine food but causing lathyrism if eaten in large amounts or over a long time.
    • Lathyrus is known in English as the chickling vetch or grass pea and can be bought in very specialized Italian grocery stores as cicerchia, which fascinatingly enough have been revived in Slow Food circles as a traditional Umbrian food in danger of disappearance. They look something like chickpeas...2007, Ken Albala, “Oddballs and Villains”, in Beans: A History, Berg, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    grass pea, blue sweet pea, chickling pea, Indian pea, white pea, white vetch

chickling vetch meaning in Tamil and Arabic

chickling vetch in Tamil

கேசரிப்பருப்பு

chickling vetch in Arabic

plant with edible seeds similar to peas
جُلُبَّان julubbān

Synonyms of chickling vetch

Forms of chickling vetch

alternative formchickling-vetch

Origin of chickling vetch

Nativized spelling of chichling vetch or chickling + vetch first nativizing chickling from chichling then compounding.

Questions about chickling vetch

What does chickling vetch mean?
Chickling vetch means a plant with edible seeds similar to peas and chickpeas of the species Lathyrus sativus, used as a famine food but causing lathyrism if eaten in large amounts or over a long time.
What is chickling vetch in Tamil?
Chickling vetch in Tamil is கேசரிப்பருப்பு. See Chickling vetch meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chickling vetch?
Chickling vetch is a noun.

Words near chickling vetch in the dictionary

  1. chicklike
  2. chicklin
  3. chickling
  4. chickling pea
  5. chickling peas
  6. chickling vetch
  7. chicklings
  8. chicklins
  9. chicklit
  10. Chickney
  11. chickore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chickling vetch (page history and authors); chickling vetch (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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