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chia seed

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An edible seed of Salvia hispanica, a flowering plant in the mint family native to Central America, or of the related Salvia columbariae of southwestern United States and Mexico.

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  • Afrikaans: chiasaad — seed
  • Arabic: بُذُور شِيَا (buḏūr šiyā) — seed
  • Chinese Mandarin: 奇亞籽 /奇亚籽 (qíyàzǐ) — seed
  • Czech: chia semínka — seed
  • Danish: chiafrø — seed
  • Dutch: chiazaad — seed
  • Finnish: chiansiemen — seed
  • German: Chiasamen — seed
  • Italian: semi di chia — seed
  • Polish: nasiono chia — seed
  • Portuguese: semente de chia — seed
  • Russian: семена́ чи́а (semená čía) — seed
  • Russian: семена́ от чи́а (semená ot čía) — seed
  • Russian: чи́я-семена́ (číja-semená) — seed
  • Serbo-Croatian: čia seme — seed
  • Serbo-Croatian: čia semenke — seed
  • Slovak: chia semienka — seed
  • Swedish: chiafrö — seed
  • Ukrainian: насі́ння чі́а (nasínnja čía) — seed
  • Yiddish: טשיִאַ־קערל (tshia-kerl) — seed