Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of grasses, of the tribe Hordeeæ, type of the subtribe Triticeæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions
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Examples
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Long beloved in Italy, farro (triticum dioscum) is misunderstood here, and is often assumed to be the same as its almost identical twin spelt (triticum spelta).
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Fun With Farro Ellen Kanner 2011
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Long beloved in Italy, farro (triticum dioscum) is misunderstood here, and is often assumed to be the same as its almost identical twin spelt (triticum spelta).
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Fun With Farro Ellen Kanner 2011
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Long beloved in Italy, farro (triticum dioscum) is misunderstood here, and is often assumed to be the same as its almost identical twin spelt (triticum spelta).
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Fun With Farro Ellen Kanner 2011
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Tunc temporis metebant siliginem: triticum non proficiebat ibi bene.
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Tunc temporis metebant siliginem: triticum non proficiebat ibi bene.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sometime before the mid-third century, wheat (triticum) had displaced emmer (far), allowing bread to replace porridge as the staple of the diet, although Greeks continued to refer to Romans as porridge eaters.
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Yield performance and complementarity in mixtures of bread wheat (triticum aestivum l.)
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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Yield performance and complementarity in mixtures of bread wheat (triticum aestivum l.)
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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The process was assisted by Iza's spring tonic, compounded of triticum roots, collected early in spring from the coarse grass that resembled rye, dried woodruff leaves, and iron-rich yellow dock root powder, administered, universally to young and old alike by the clan's medicine woman.
The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980
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The _bearded_ wheat, or _triticum_, not the _siligo_, or common wheat of our English culture, was the plant which, whenever the attributes of Ceres were to be represented on ancient coins, was selected for that purpose; but the Lucchese territory, where the _Cerealia_ in general abound, offers few specimens of either kind.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various
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