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▪ I. ‖ chia
An early form of the word tea. Cf. cha.
1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commonw. (1603) 216 Water mixt with a certaine precious powder which they [the Japanese] use, they account a daintie beverage: they call it Chia. 1625Purchas Pilgrims iv. xviii. 437 They offer him ‘Chia’ to drinke. Ibid. v. xv. 524.
▪ II. chia, n.2
Brit. |ˈtʃiːə|, U.S. |ˈtʃiə|
Forms: 19– chia, 19– chian
[‹ Mexican Spanish chía, name of several different plants of the family Lamiaceae (1560) and its etymon Nahuatl chia, chian.]
An annual, typically purple-flowering plant native to Mexico, Salvia hispanica (family Lamiaceae (Labiatae)), which is cultivated from the south-western United States to Argentina for its greyish, oily, mucilaginous seed, used in various foods and beverages and historically was a staple food of the Nahuatl people; (also) any of several similar plants of the genus Salvia, esp. S. columbariae. Freq. attrib., as chia oil, chia seed, etc.
1832T. F. Gordon Hist. Anc. Mexico viii. 316 The soldier, who had a small bag of flour of maize and chia, thought himself amply provided. 1843W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. vi. 166 He fell in with a girl who was reaping chian [1873 chia],—a Mexican plant, the seed of which was much used in the drinks of the country. 1872J. Rudolphy Pharm. Directory (ed. 2) 3 Salvia hispanica. Chia seed. 1876Bot. Bull. 1 17 Chia was among the Nahua races of Ancient Mexico as regularly cultivated as corn. 1919J. S. Chase Calif. Desert Trails 78 The nourishing properties of chia seed should be better known. 1954E. W. Eckey Veg. Fats & Oils xxi. 733 Chia oil..from the seed of Salvia hispanica, a shrub which grows wild in Mexico, resembles perilla oil. 2005N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Dec. ix. 2/3 Sabina..is on hand every night to serve things like sugar-free chia-seed pudding and pumpkin sage risotto with pomegranate. |