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Article: chickpea
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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chickpea annual plant (
Cicer arietinum
) of the family Leguminosae (
pulse
family), cultivated since antiquity for the somewhat pealike seeds, which are often used as food and forage, principally in India and the Spanish-speaking ...
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Encyclopedia entry: logwood
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
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... ... small, thorny tree ( Haematoxylon campechianum ) of the family Leguminosae ( pulse family) native to tropical America and introduced ... in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Leguminosae.
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