Fava bean

chick pea, type of legume, type of bean

Vicia faba, the broad bean, fava bean, faba bean, horse bean, field bean, tic bean is a species of bean (Fabaceae) native to north Africa and southwest Asia, and extensively cultivated elsewhere. Although usually classified in the same genus Vicia as the vetches, some botanists treat it in a separate monotypic genus as Faba sativa Moench.
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Noun
1. seed of the broad-bean plant
(synonym) broad bean, horsebean
(hypernym) bean, bean plant
(part-holonym) broad bean, broad-bean, broad-bean plant, English bean, European bean, field bean, Vicia faba
2. shell beans cooked as limas
(synonym) broad bean
(hypernym) shell bean

The broad bean to which many people react adversely with an acute hemolytic anemia with sudden breakup of red blood cells (see Favism). Fava beans look like large tan lima beans. They are popular in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines, are eaten raw when very young, cooked in soups and many other dishes, and made into fava brittle (like peanut brittle) as candy. The botanical name for fava is Vicia fava. Fava is Italian for bean and refers specifically to the broad bean. Fava beans are the main commercial source of the drug L-DOPA.