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chickpeas

chickpeas is the plural 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.

Questions about chickpeas

What is chickpeas the plural of?
Chickpeas is the plural of chickpea.

Words near chickpeas in the dictionary

  1. chickories
  2. chickory
  3. Chickos
  4. chickpea
  5. chickpea of the sea
  6. chickpeas
  7. chicks
  8. chicks before dicks
  9. chicks with dicks
  10. Chicksands
  11. Chicksaw

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