buckwheatn.

/ˈbʌkhwiːt/

Forms: Also 1500s bukwheate, bockwheate.

Etymology: perhaps immediately < Dutch boekweit (bockweydt in Lyte) or German buchweize ‘beech-wheat’ from the shape of the triquetrous seeds, whence also the botanical name Fagopyrum ; but it was referred to as a familiar name by Turner, 30 years before Lyte professed to take it from Dutch, so that the name may have been of English origin, after buck-mast n. or buck n.² Barnaby Googe apparently independently called it beech-wheat.

a. A species of Polygonum ( P. Fagopyrum), a native of central Asia, whence it was introduced into Europe by the Turks about the 13th cent. The seed is in Europe used as food for horses, cattle, and poultry; in North America its meal is made into ‘buckwheat cakes’, regarded as a dainty for the breakfast-table. Formerly also called brank n.¹

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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > other grains

buckwheat1548

brank1577

bullimong1578

sesame1600

block-wheat1611

fundi1670

kurakkan1681

manna seeds1764

manna1780

teff1790

bajra1813

semsem1866

sesame grain1867

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > other grains

buckwheat1548

brank1577

bullimong1578

block-wheat1611

kurakkan1681

rice1713

teff1790

bajra1813

the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > plants used as fodder

bullimong1313

podder1468

tare1482

greens1607

lucerne1652

esperate1659

esparcet1669

tare-thistle1753

buckwheat1776

mangel-wurzel1787

mangold1848

sacate1848

sacaton1865

mangel-wurzel potato1875

mutter1875

ramon1885

cattle-bush1889

manna1897

beech-wheat-

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.viij Elatine is lyke wythwynde, but it hath seedes and floures lyke Buckwheate,..it maye be named in englishe running Buckwheate or bynde corne.

1551 [see sense 2].

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 31 I had rather call it Beechwheate, because the grayne therof is threecorned, not vnlyke the Beechemast both in colour and fourme.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xiv. 468 In base Almaigne Bockweydt, after whiche name it may be englished Bock~wheat.

1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 83 Bucke wheate nourisheth less than wheate.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 281 Indian corn and buck wheat for this purpose [sc. feeding poultry] .

1792 A. Young Trav. France 456 In part of Normandy and Bretagne, they live very much..upon buck-wheat.

1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ii. 20 Buckwheat is used almost exclusively for feeding pheasants.

b. elliptical. A buckwheat cake. U.S.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes

honey appleeOE

barley-cake1393

seed cakea1400

cake?a1425

pudding-cake?1553

manchet1562

biscuit cake1593

placent1598

poplin1600

jumbal1615

bread pudding1623

semel1643

wine-cakea1661

Shrewsbury cake1670

curd cake1675

fruitcake1687

clap-bread1691

simnel cake1699

orange-flower cake1718

banana cake1726

sweet-cake1726

torte1748

Naples cake1766

Bath cake1769

gofer1769

yeast-cake1795

nutcake1801

tipsy-cake1806

cruller1808

baba1813

lady's finger1818

coconut cake1824

mint cake1825

sices1825

cup-cake1828

batter-cake1830

buckwheat1830

Dundee seed cake1833

fat-cake1839

babka1846

wonder1848

popover1850

cream-cake1855

sly-cake1855

dripping-cake1857

lard-cake1858

puffet1860

quick cake1865

barnbrack1867

matrimony cake1871

brioche1873

Nelson cake1877

cocoa cake1883

sesame cake1883

marinade1888

mystery1889

oblietjie1890

stuffed monkey1892

Greek bread1893

Battenberg1903

Oswego cake1907

nusstorte1911

dump cake1912

Dobos Torte1915

lekach1918

buckle1935

Florentine1936

hash cake1967

space cake1984

1830 Collegian 41 (D.A.E.) Six muffins, a dozen buck~wheats.

1859 S. S. Cox Eight Yrs. Congr. (1865) 114 Even our Quakers are willing to drink cheap damnation in their coffee-cups, and eat it on their buckwheats.

1904 G. H. Lorimer Old Gorgon Graham 227 A fellow'd load up with pie and buck-wheats for breakfast, and go around wondering about his stomach-ache.

2. Applied to other species of Polygonum, esp. to Black Bindweed ( P. Convolvulus) or ‘Running Buckwheat’, and to P. tartaricum ‘Tartarean Buckwheat’.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > bindweed or convolvulus

woodbinec875

withwindc1000

bearbinda1325

bindweed1548

buckwheat1548

foalfoot1548

sea-cole1548

convolvulus1551

weedbind1551

soldanel1562

withweed1567

bindcorn1574

running buck1574

bind1575

ivy-bindweed1578

weedwind1578

windweed1578

withywind1578

nil1597

sea-bell1597

sea-bindweed1597

sea or Scottish scurvy-grass1597

sea-withwind1597

soldanella1597

ropeweed1598

bethwine1609

volubilis1664

Scotch scurvy-grassa1722

black bindweed1785

calystegia1880

sea convolvulus1921

bell-binder-

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > bistort and allies

adderwortOE

arsesmarta1300

persicarya1400

persicaria?a1450

polygonya1500

buckwheat1548

polygonum1562

passions1568

bistort1578

oysterloit1578

goat's wheat1597

peachwort1597

plumbago1597

redshank1597

snake-weed1597

dragonwort1656

smartweed1787

patience dock1796

red-legs1820

passion dock1828

smartgrass1837

mud knotweed1845

jointweed1866

tear-thumb1866

pinch-weed1883

knotweed1884

sachaline1901

1548 [see sense 1a].

1551 W. Turner New Herball 165 I call it runnynge bukwheate, because in thre thynges it resemblethe bukwheate.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 281 Running Buckwheat or Bindweed..putteth forth smal leaues, round and hairy.

1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 102 The beautiful buck-wheat, whose transparent leaves and stalks are so brightly tinged with vermilion.

Compounds

General attributive, esp. buckwheat cake (U.S.).

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > of or containing wheat > of, belonging to, or resembling wheat plant > of particular types

pollard?1523

white-bearded1607

red-bearded1634

buckwheat1774

speltoid1920

1774 J. Adams Diary 21 Sept. (1850) II. 381 Mrs. Yard entertained us with muffins, buckwheat cakes, and common toast.

1787 G. Washington Diaries II. 230 That Buck Wheat Meal made into a wash is most excellent to lay on fat upon hogs.

a1793 P. M. Freneau Poems (1809) II. 205 The horse..Not fed with oats, but filled with wind, And buck-wheat straw.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. iv. 107 To these..are we indebted for the invention of slap jacks, or buck-wheat cakes.

1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants ii. 152 Pancakes..are a fine substitute for the buck-wheat cakes of New-Jersey.

1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves 3 He was down by the hedge of his buckwheat field, and the sun had set.

1872 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master xxii. 156 Ralph was doing..justice to his Aunt Matilda's hot buckwheat cakes.

1873 Atlas of Michigan Pref. 20 Upon a somewhat similar soil is found the ‘Buckwheat’..pine.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 120 at Coal Buckwheat-coal..is the smallest size, and usually included in the dirt or culm.

1882 Garden 25 Mar. 191/3 To go to America for a good..Buckwheat cake.

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单词	buckwheat
释义	buckwheatn. /ˈbʌkhwiːt/ Forms: Also 1500s bukwheate, bockwheate. Etymology: perhaps immediately < Dutch boekweit (bockweydt in Lyte) or German buchweize ‘beech-wheat’ from the shape of the triquetrous seeds, whence also the botanical name Fagopyrum ; but it was referred to as a familiar name by Turner, 30 years before Lyte professed to take it from Dutch, so that the name may have been of English origin, after buck-mast n. or buck n.² Barnaby Googe apparently independently called it beech-wheat. 1. a. A species of Polygonum ( P. Fagopyrum), a native of central Asia, whence it was introduced into Europe by the Turks about the 13th cent. The seed is in Europe used as food for horses, cattle, and poultry; in North America its meal is made into ‘buckwheat cakes’, regarded as a dainty for the breakfast-table. Formerly also called brank n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > other grains buckwheat1548 brank1577 bullimong1578 sesame1600 block-wheat1611 fundi1670 kurakkan1681 manna seeds1764 manna1780 teff1790 bajra1813 semsem1866 sesame grain1867 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > other grains buckwheat1548 brank1577 bullimong1578 block-wheat1611 kurakkan1681 rice1713 teff1790 bajra1813 the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > plants used as fodder bullimong1313 podder1468 tare1482 greens1607 lucerne1652 esperate1659 esparcet1669 tare-thistle1753 buckwheat1776 mangel-wurzel1787 mangold1848 sacate1848 sacaton1865 mangel-wurzel potato1875 mutter1875 ramon1885 cattle-bush1889 manna1897 beech-wheat- 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.viij Elatine is lyke wythwynde, but it hath seedes and floures lyke Buckwheate,..it maye be named in englishe running Buckwheate or bynde corne. 1551 [see sense 2]. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 31 I had rather call it Beechwheate, because the grayne therof is threecorned, not vnlyke the Beechemast both in colour and fourme. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xiv. 468 In base Almaigne Bockweydt, after whiche name it may be englished Bock~wheat. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 83 Bucke wheate nourisheth less than wheate. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 281 Indian corn and buck wheat for this purpose [sc. feeding poultry] . View more context for this quotation 1792 A. Young Trav. France 456 In part of Normandy and Bretagne, they live very much..upon buck-wheat. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ii. 20 Buckwheat is used almost exclusively for feeding pheasants. b. elliptical. A buckwheat cake. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes honey appleeOE barley-cake1393 seed cakea1400 cake?a1425 pudding-cake?1553 manchet1562 biscuit cake1593 placent1598 poplin1600 jumbal1615 bread pudding1623 semel1643 wine-cakea1661 Shrewsbury cake1670 curd cake1675 fruitcake1687 clap-bread1691 simnel cake1699 orange-flower cake1718 banana cake1726 sweet-cake1726 torte1748 Naples cake1766 Bath cake1769 gofer1769 yeast-cake1795 nutcake1801 tipsy-cake1806 cruller1808 baba1813 lady's finger1818 coconut cake1824 mint cake1825 sices1825 cup-cake1828 batter-cake1830 buckwheat1830 Dundee seed cake1833 fat-cake1839 babka1846 wonder1848 popover1850 cream-cake1855 sly-cake1855 dripping-cake1857 lard-cake1858 puffet1860 quick cake1865 barnbrack1867 matrimony cake1871 brioche1873 Nelson cake1877 cocoa cake1883 sesame cake1883 marinade1888 mystery1889 oblietjie1890 stuffed monkey1892 Greek bread1893 Battenberg1903 Oswego cake1907 nusstorte1911 dump cake1912 Dobos Torte1915 lekach1918 buckle1935 Florentine1936 hash cake1967 space cake1984 1830 Collegian 41 (D.A.E.) Six muffins, a dozen buck~wheats. 1859 S. S. Cox Eight Yrs. Congr. (1865) 114 Even our Quakers are willing to drink cheap damnation in their coffee-cups, and eat it on their buckwheats. 1904 G. H. Lorimer Old Gorgon Graham 227 A fellow'd load up with pie and buck-wheats for breakfast, and go around wondering about his stomach-ache. 2. Applied to other species of Polygonum, esp. to Black Bindweed ( P. Convolvulus) or ‘Running Buckwheat’, and to P. tartaricum ‘Tartarean Buckwheat’. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > bindweed or convolvulus woodbinec875 withwindc1000 bearbinda1325 bindweed1548 buckwheat1548 foalfoot1548 sea-cole1548 convolvulus1551 weedbind1551 soldanel1562 withweed1567 bindcorn1574 running buck1574 bind1575 ivy-bindweed1578 weedwind1578 windweed1578 withywind1578 nil1597 sea-bell1597 sea-bindweed1597 sea or Scottish scurvy-grass1597 sea-withwind1597 soldanella1597 ropeweed1598 bethwine1609 volubilis1664 Scotch scurvy-grassa1722 black bindweed1785 calystegia1880 sea convolvulus1921 bell-binder- the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > bistort and allies adderwortOE arsesmarta1300 persicarya1400 persicaria?a1450 polygonya1500 buckwheat1548 polygonum1562 passions1568 bistort1578 oysterloit1578 goat's wheat1597 peachwort1597 plumbago1597 redshank1597 snake-weed1597 dragonwort1656 smartweed1787 patience dock1796 red-legs1820 passion dock1828 smartgrass1837 mud knotweed1845 jointweed1866 tear-thumb1866 pinch-weed1883 knotweed1884 sachaline1901 1548 [see sense 1a]. 1551 W. Turner New Herball 165 I call it runnynge bukwheate, because in thre thynges it resemblethe bukwheate. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 281 Running Buckwheat or Bindweed..putteth forth smal leaues, round and hairy. 1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 102 The beautiful buck-wheat, whose transparent leaves and stalks are so brightly tinged with vermilion. Compounds General attributive, esp. buckwheat cake (U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > of or containing wheat > of, belonging to, or resembling wheat plant > of particular types pollard?1523 white-bearded1607 red-bearded1634 buckwheat1774 speltoid1920 1774 J. Adams Diary 21 Sept. (1850) II. 381 Mrs. Yard entertained us with muffins, buckwheat cakes, and common toast. 1787 G. Washington Diaries II. 230 That Buck Wheat Meal made into a wash is most excellent to lay on fat upon hogs. a1793 P. M. Freneau Poems (1809) II. 205 The horse..Not fed with oats, but filled with wind, And buck-wheat straw. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. iv. 107 To these..are we indebted for the invention of slap jacks, or buck-wheat cakes. 1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants ii. 152 Pancakes..are a fine substitute for the buck-wheat cakes of New-Jersey. 1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves 3 He was down by the hedge of his buckwheat field, and the sun had set. 1872 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master xxii. 156 Ralph was doing..justice to his Aunt Matilda's hot buckwheat cakes. 1873 Atlas of Michigan Pref. 20 Upon a somewhat similar soil is found the ‘Buckwheat’..pine. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 120 at Coal Buckwheat-coal..is the smallest size, and usually included in the dirt or culm. 1882 Garden 25 Mar. 191/3 To go to America for a good..Buckwheat cake. 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