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Buckwheat definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUCK'WHEAT, n. A plant and a species of grain; called also brank. It belongs to the genus polygonum, or knot-grass. It is cultivated as food for beasts, and the flour is much used in America for breakfast cakes.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour [syn: buckwheat, Polygonum fagopyrum, Fagopyrum esculentum]
2: grain ground into flour

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Dutch boekweit, from Middle Dutch boecweit, from boec- (akin to Old High German buohha beech tree) + weit wheat — more at beech Date: 1548 1. any of a genus (Fagopyrum of the family Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family) of Eurasian herbs with alternate leaves, clusters of apetalous pinkish-white flowers, and triangular seeds; especially either of two plants (F. esculentum and F. tartaricum) cultivated for their edible seeds 2. the seed of a buckwheat used as a cereal grain

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any cereal plant of the genus Fagopyrum, esp. F. esculentum with seeds used for fodder and for flour to make bread and pancakes. Etymology: MDu. boecweite beech wheat, its grains being shaped like beechmast

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Buckwheat Buck"wheat`, n. [Buck a beech tree + wheat; akin to D. boekweit, G. buchweizen.] 1. (Bot.) A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food. 2. The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.