einkorn wheat
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einkorn wheat
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Borrowed from German Einkorn (literally “single grain”).
noun einkorn wheats · einkorn
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A type of wheat, characterised by the presence of a single grain in each spikelet, that was cultivated in the Fertile Crescent and was one of the first grains to be domesticated; any subtype of said wheat, considered as a unit; in particular, the domesticated form.
2001, Bruce D. Smith, Chapter 6: The Transition to Food Production, Gary M. Feinman, T. Douglas Price (editors), Archaeology at the Millennium: A Sourcebook, Springer, 2007, Softcover, page 207,
A team of researchers from Norway, Germany, and Italy, for example, has recently pinpointed the particula
Similar: little spelt
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noun wheat type
| Español | escanda, escaña cultivada, escaña silvestre |
|---|---|
| Français | engrain, petit épeautre, engrain sauvage |
| Deutsch | Einkorn, kleiner Spelz |
| Italiano | farro piccolo, farricello |
| Română | alac |
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