A legume plant, specifically a variety of chickpea or related bean, used as food and animal feed in various regions.
From dialectal or regional terminology, possibly related to 'garbanzo' through linguistic variation. The word appears in agricultural contexts, particularly in British and Indian English. It may derive from Spanish/Portuguese garbanzo with sound variations across languages.
Garvance shows how the same plant gets completely different names as you travel—Indians call it chana, Spanish speakers say garbanzo, English farmers say garvance—it's proof that food traveled further than vocabulary did.
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