How Cicero got the name, from Brewer:
Cicero So called from the Latin, cicer (a wart or vetch). Plutarch says “a flat excrescence on the
tip of his nose gave him this name.”

chickpea
n.
1 a bushy annual plant (Cicer arietinum) of the pea family, with short, hairy pods containing usually two seeds; garbanzo
2 the edible seed