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buckwheat flour

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buck⋅wheat

[buhk-hweet, -weet]
–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


buckwheatlike, adjective
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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