triticalen.
/trɪtɪˈkeɪliː/ A hybrid cereal grass, of the genus × Triticosecale, produced by crossing various species or varieties of wheat and rye.
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1952 New Biol. 13 44 A cross between wheat and rye..is known as Triticale.
1968 New Scientist 24 Oct. 181/2 (caption) Triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye developed at the University of Manitoba.
1974 A. 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.
1979 McGraw-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.
1983 New 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.
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