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triticale|trɪtɪˈkeɪliː|
Also Triticale.
[f. mod.L. generic names Tritic(um wheat + Se)cale rye.]
A hybrid cereal grass, of the genus × Triticosecale, produced by crossing various species or varieties of wheat and rye.
1952New Biol. XIII. 44 A cross between wheat and rye..is known as Triticale. 1968New Scientist 24 Oct. 181/2 (caption) Triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye developed at the University of Manitoba. 1974A. J. Huxley Plant & Planet xxvii. 309 New races of the great seed plants..have been created in the last few years, including a promising wheat/rye hybrid called triticale. 1979McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 414/1 Although triticale plants were first described in 1876, only in the mid-1960s did they begin to receive great interest from scientists and farmers. 1983New Scientist 13 Jan. 98/1 From a slow start in the 1950s..triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares, in the USSR, Europe, the United States and South America. |