beech-wheat

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• buck|wheat — «BUHK HWEET», noun. 1. a plant with black or gray, triangular seeds and fragrant, white flowers. 2. the seeds, used as food for animals or ground into flour. 3. meal, flour, or batter made from buckwheat, popular in the United States as an… …   Useful english dictionary

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• buckwheat — /ˈbʌkwit/ (say bukweet) noun 1. a herbaceous plant, Fagopyrum esculentum, cultivated for its triangular seeds, which are used as a food for animals, and in the US made into a flour for cakes, etc. 2. the seeds of the buckwheat. 3. buckwheat flour …  

• buckwheat — buck•wheat [[t]ˈbʌkˌ(h)wit, ˌwit[/t]] n. 1) pln any of several plants of the genus Fagopyrum, of the buckwheat family, cultivated for their edible triangular seeds 2) pln coo the seeds of this plant, made into flour or a cereal 3) coo Also called …   From formal English to slang

• buckwheat — 1540s, from M.Du. boecweite beech wheat (Cf. Dan. boghvede, Swed. bovete, Ger. Buchweizen), so called from resemblance between grains and seed of beech trees. Possibly a native formation on the same model as the Dutch word …   Etymology dictionary

• buckwheat — buckwheatlike, adj. /buk hweet , weet /, n. 1. a plant, esp. Fagopyrum esculentum, cultivated for its triangular seeds, which are used as a feed for animals or made into a flour for human consumption, as in pancakes or cereal. Cf. buckwheat… …   Universalium

• buckwheat — noun an Asian plant of the dock family, producing starchy seeds used for fodder or milled into flour. [Fagopyrum esculentum.] Origin C16: from MDu. boecweite beech wheat , its grains being shaped like beechmast …   English new terms dictionary

• buckwheat — ► NOUN ▪ a plant producing starchy seeds used for fodder or milled into flour. ORIGIN Dutch boecweite beech wheat , its grains being shaped like beechmast …   English terms dictionary