Chickpea : nm Le Chickpea is a leguminous plant cultivated for its seeds.
To have a chickpea in the head: to be fool, stupid, idiot.
Having eaten uncooked chickpeas: being pregnant.
Chickpea on the nose: wart.
Cicero owes his nickname (cognomen) a large chickpea-shaped wart that is said to have adorned the tip of the nose of one of his ancestors; it is the same for the pharaoh of Greek origin Ptolemy IX nicknamed Lathyros, the equivalent in Greek.