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garvanzo

garvanzo is the alternative form of garbanzo.

Meaning of garbanzo

Noun

garbanzo (plural garbanzos)

  1. An edible pulse (Cicer arietinum), of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or Papilionoideae, with white or purple-blue flowers and small feathery leaves on both sides of the stem and pods containing two to three peas.
    • America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the speeches were free[…]1956, Allen Ginsberg, “America”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 33
    Synonyms:
    garbanzo bean
  2. A seed of this plant; the chickpea.

Forms of garvanzo

pluralgarvanzos

Questions about garvanzo

What is garvanzo the alternative form of?
Garvanzo is the alternative form of garbanzo.

Words near garvanzo in the dictionary

  1. Garvagh
  2. Garvald
  3. garvance
  4. garvances
  5. Garvanza
  6. garvanzo
  7. garvanzos
  8. Garve
  9. Garver
  10. Garvers
  11. Garvestone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: garvanzo (page history and authors); garbanzo (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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