chickling vetch
English
Noun
- A plant with edible seeds similar to peas, Lathyrus sativus, used as a famine food but causing lathyrism if eaten in large amounts or over a long time.
- 2007, Ken Albala, Beans: A History, Berg (→ISBN)
- 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 revived in Slow Food circles as a traditional Umbrian food in […]
- 2007, Ken Albala, Beans: A History, Berg (→ISBN)
Synonyms
- (Lathyrus sativus): grass pea, blue sweet pea, chickling pea, Indian pea, white pea, white vetch
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