chickpea

A very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean.

Any of the genus Galactia of leguminous and, usually, twining plants.

Chamaecrista fasciculata, an annual legume with yellow flowers, native to most of the eastern United States.

The red vetchling (Lathyrus cicera). / (Jamaica) The kidney bean.

Lathyrus linifolius, a species of pea, whose tubers were once used as an appetite suppressant.

argillaceous oxide of iron, occurring in round grains the size of peas; pisolitic ore

Vigna marina (notched cowpea, nanea). / Lathyrus japonicus (sea pea, circumpolar pea, sea vetchling), a legume native to temperate coastal areas of Asia, Europe, and North and South America.

Any of the genus Centrosema of American vines. / The vine Clitoria ternatea, of the family Leguminosae.

Alternative spelling of chickpea