The garbanzo bean or just garbanzo (Cicer arietinum) is a legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It is also known as chickpea or chick pea, gram or Bengal gram, and is sometimes known as Egyptian pea,ceci, cece or chana, or Kabuli chana (particularly in northern India). Its seeds are high in protein.

The word garbanzo, from an alteration of Old Spanish arvanço, came first to American English as garvance in the 17th century, being gradually anglicized to calavance, though it came to refer to a variety of other beans (cf. calavance). The current form garbanzo comes directly from modern Spanish, and is commonly used in regions of the United States with a strong Mexican or Spanish influence.

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