garbanzo

gar·ban·zo
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/ɡɑɹˈbɑnzoʊ/

noun

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.

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garbanzo beanchickpea
OriginSpanish garbanzo →
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Meanings

noungarbanzo (plural garbanzos)

plural garbanzos

  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[…]

    1956, Allen Ginsberg, “America”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 33

    Synonyms: garbanzo bean

  2. A seed of this plant; the chickpea.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn 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.

Similar
garbanzo bean

More synonyms by meaning

nounthe seed of the chickpea plant

Similar
chickpea
Broader
legume

nounlarge white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried

Similar
chickpea
Broader
legume
Also see
chickpea

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Spanishgarbanzo
  2. Englishgarbanzo

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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Translations

Catalan cigró
  • cigróedible pulse
Estonian kikerhernes
  • kikerhernesedible pulse
French pois chiche
  • pois chicheedible pulse
German Kichererbse
  • Kichererbseedible pulse
Hungarian csicseriborsó
  • csicseriborsóedible pulse
Italian cece
  • ceceedible pulse
Polish ciecierzyca
  • ciecierzycaedible pulse
Portuguese grão-de-bico
  • grão-de-bicoedible pulse
Romanian năut
  • năutedible pulse
Russian нут
  • нут (nut)edible pulse
Spanish garbanzo
  • garbanzoedible pulse
Cite this entry
APA

garbanzo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garbanzo

MLA

“garbanzo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garbanzo. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “garbanzo,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garbanzo.

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