buckwheat
Americannoun
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a plant, especially 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.
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the seeds of this plant.
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Also buckwheat flour flour made from seeds of buckwheat.
adjective
noun
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any of several polygonaceous plants of the genus Fagopyrum , esp F. esculentum , which has fragrant white flowers and is cultivated, esp in the US, for its seeds
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the edible seeds of this plant, ground into flour or used as animal fodder
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the flour obtained from these seeds
Other Word Forms
- buckwheatlike adjective
Etymology
Origin of buckwheat
1540–50; obsolete buck ( Old English bōc beech ) + wheat; compare Dutch boekweit, German Buchweizen; so called because its seeds resemble beechnuts
Example Sentences
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For the whole walk home, my clothes smelled of Breizh’s signature buckwheat and brown butter.
Gardens full of buckwheat, sage, vegetables, roses and treasured sweet peas surround her Ventura home.
From Los Angeles Times
We also passed dense stands of thick-leaved yerba santa, California buckwheat, sugar bush and chilicothe vines and we were treated to the squawks of California scrub jays and a red-tail hawk flying overhead.
From Los Angeles Times
Landscapers place hundreds of native buckwheat, sages and other plants on top of the wildlife crossing.
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Summer dormancy has turned the tall stalks of wand buckwheat brown and bare, except for tiny balls of pink flowers, but the plants should leaf out again in the spring.
From Los Angeles Times
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