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The chick-pea.

See Chica.

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.

ron, Dyer's saffron. (Bot.) See Safflower. -- Meadow saffron (Bot.), a bulbous plant (Colchichum autumnate) of Europe, resembling saffron. -- Saffron wood (Bot.), the yellowish wood of a South African tree (Elæodendron croceum); also, the tree itself. -- Saffron yellow, a shade of yellow like that obtained from the…