Translation for "chick-pea" to spanish

Chick-pea

noun

• garbanzo

Translation examples

garbanzo noun

The man in khaki fixed his gaze on a speck of boiled chick-pea nestled in a corner of the Arab's mouth;
El hombre vestido de color caqui clavó la vista en un pedacito de garbanzo hervido que había en la comisura de la boca del árabe;

“How was I supposed to know all the buyers would be in town for the chick-pea harvest?” “You knew it,” Yossarian charged.
¿Cómo iba yo a saber que vendrían todos los compradores a por la cosecha de garbanzos? —Claro que lo sabías —le reprochó Yossarian—.

They say it comes from an ancestor who had an ugly bump on the tip of his nose, defied down the middle, something like a chick-pea.
Dicen que procede de un antepasado que tenía una fea protuberancia en la punta de la nariz, con una hendidura en el centro, que parecía un garbanzo.

His wide shoulders and his visibly concave chest were underscored by a pair of legs that supported his trunk with all the sparkle of ants dragging a chick pea.
La anchura de sus espaldas, la concavidad visible de su pecho, subrayadas por unas piernas que soportaban el tronco con la deslumbrada ligereza de las colonias de hormigas al arrastrar un garbanzo.