CHICKPEA PLANT

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Meaning:

Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds

Synonyms:

chickpea; chickpea plant; Cicer arietinum; Egyptian pea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chickpea plant" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Meronyms (parts of "chickpea plant"):

chickpea; garbanzo (large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried)

chickpea; garbanzo (the seed of the chickpea plant)