Garbanzo
//ɡɑɹˈbɑnzoʊ// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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[…]"
- 2 large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried wordnet
- 3 A seed of this plant; the chickpea.
- 4 the seed of the chickpea plant wordnet
Example
More examples"There were garbanzo beans in the salad as well as in the hummus."
Etymology
From 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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