garbanzo
An edible pulse, of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or…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.
» I love garbanzo beans.
Meaning
2 sensesAn 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.
Kichererbse
нутnut
A seed of this plant; the chickpea.
the seed of the chickpea plant
Examples
6 sentencesI love garbanzo beans.
Do you want to eat garbanzo beans?
deMöchtest du Kichererbsen essen? — Yorwba
The way that I most like garbanzo beans is in a stew.
There were garbanzo beans in the salad as well as in the hummus.
I need to buy a mortar and pestle to grind garbanzo beans for authentic hummus.
Translations
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Origin
From Spanish garbanzo, initially borrowed as garvance in the 17th c. and anglicized as calFrom Spanish garbanzo, initially borrowed as garvance in the 17th c. and anglicized as calavance (“chickpea; any kind of bean or pulse”). The original garbanzo was re-established in the 19th c., primarily via American Spanish.
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