📚 noun • entry_id 59699
chickling vetch
Meanings (ES + gloss)
almorta • chícharo • pito
A plant with edible seeds similar to peas and chickpeas of species Lathyrus sativus, used as a famine food but causing lathyrism if eaten in large amounts or over a long time.
Lathyrus is known in English as the chickling vetch or grass pea and can be bought in very specialized Italian grocery stores as cicerchia, which fascinatingly enough have been rev…
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