cicer arietinum

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

   Synonymschickpeachickpea plantEgyptian pea

   Broaderlegume

   Partschickpea

Questions about cicer arietinum

What does cicer arietinum mean?

cicer arietinum means "Asiatic herb cultivated for its short pods with one or two edible seeds".

What is another word for cicer arietinum?

Close synonyms include chickpea, chickpea plant, Egyptian pea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cicer arietinum a common word?

cicer arietinum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.