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–noun

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. Compare buckwheat family.

2.	the seeds of this plant.

3.	Also, buckwheat flour. flour made from seeds of buckwheat.

–adjective

4.	made with buckwheat flour: buckwheat pancakes.

[Origin: 1540–50; obs. buck(OE bōc beech) + wheat; cf. D boekweit, G Buchweizen; so called because its seeds resemble beechnuts

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—Related forms

buckwheatlike, adjective

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n.

1. An annual Asian plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) having clusters of small whitish or pinkish flowers and small, seedlike, triangular fruits.
2. The edible fruits of this plant, used either whole or ground into flour.
Any of several similar or related plants.

[Probably partial translation of Middle Dutch boecweite : boek, beech; see bhāgo- in Indo-European roots + weite, wheat.]

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buckwheat

1548, from M.Du. boecweite "beech wheat" (cf. Dan. boghvede, Ger. Buchweizen), so called from resemblance between grains and seed of beech trees. Possibly a native formation on the same model as the Du. word.

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buckwheat
noun
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
2.	grain ground into flour

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Buckwheat

Beech\, n.; pl. Beeches. [OE. beche, AS. b?ce; akin to D. beuk, OHG. buocha, G. buche, Icel. beyki, Dan. b["o]g, Sw. bok, Russ. buk, L. fagus, Gr. ? oak, ? to eat, Skr. bhaksh; the tree being named originally from the esculent fruit. See Book, and cf. 7th Buck, Buckwheat.] (Bot.) A tree of the genus Fagus.

Note: It grows to a large size, having a smooth bark and thick foliage, and bears an edible triangular nut, of which swine are fond. The Fagus sylvatica is the European species, and the F. ferruginea that of America.

Beech drops (Bot.), a parasitic plant which grows on the roots of beeches (Epiphegus Americana).

Beech marten (Zo["o]l.), the stone marten of Europe (Mustela foina).

Beech mast, the nuts of the beech, esp. as they lie under the trees, in autumn.

Beech oil, oil expressed from the mast or nuts of the beech tree.

Cooper beech, a variety of the European beech with copper-colored, shining leaves.

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