or CHICK-PEA, in botany; A genus of the decandria order, belonging to the diadelphia class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the Papilionaceæ, or 3rd order. The calyx is quinquapartite, as long as the corolla, with its four uppermost segments incumbent on the vexillum; the legumen is rhomboidal, turbid, and dispersible. There is but one species, which produces peas shaped like the common ones, but much smaller. They are much cultivated in Spain, where they are natives, being one of the ingredients in their ollos; as also in France; but are rarely known in Britain.