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Semolina Pasta Flour
Semolina Wheat Flour for Pasta Baking Ingredients and Spices
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durum wheat

  [door-uhm, dyoor-]
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–noun
a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
Also called durum, macaroni wheat.

Origin:
1905–10; < NL, the earlier specific epithet. See dure 1
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Semolina Pasta Flour
Semolina Wheat Flour for Pasta Baking Ingredients and Spices
www.Bulkfoods.com/SemolinaFlour.htm
du·rum   (dŏŏr'əm, dyŏŏr'-, dûr'-, dŭr'-)   
n.  A hardy wheat (Triticum turgidum, formerly T. durum) used chiefly in making pasta.

[From Latin dūrum, neuter of dūrus, hard; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

durum 
species of wheat, 1908, from L. durum, neut. of durus "hard" (see endure). The seeds are tough.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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durum

(species Triticum durum), hard wheat (q.v.) producing a glutenous flour. The purified middlings of durum wheat are known as semolina, used for pasta products

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