单词 | rice-wheat |
释义 | > as lemmasrice-wheat rice-wheat n. now rare emmer, Triticum dicoccon; (also) (North American) an inferior variety of durum or bread wheat. ΚΠ 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 262/2 T[riticum] dicoccum, Two-grained or Rice-Wheat, has the spike oppositely compressed. 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 451/1 To these [crops] in some districts are added spelt, buckwheat, millet, rice-wheat (Triticum dicoccum). 1904 W. C. Edgar Story Grain of Wheat vi. 79 It has a long berry, is light in colour and very hard and flinty in texture, like the rice-wheat or ‘goose-wheat’ grown in the United States. < as lemmas |
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