Buckwheat Definition

bŭkwēt, -hwēt
noun
Any of several plants (genus Fagopyrum) of the buckwheat family, grown for their black, triangular grains.
Webster's New World
The grain of this plant, from which a dark flour is made.
Webster's New World
Any of several similar or related plants.
American Heritage
This flour.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Fagopyrum esculentum
  • Polygonum fagopyrum
adjective
Designating a family (Polygonaceae, order Polygonales) of dicotyledonous plants, including rhubarb, dock, and sorrel.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Buckwheat

Noun

Singular:
buckwheat
Plural:
buckwheats

Origin of Buckwheat

  • Probably partial translation of Middle Dutch boecweite boek beech (from the resemblance of the three-sided seeds of buckwheat to beechnuts) bhāgo- in Indo-European roots weite wheat

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle Dutch boecweite or Middle Low German bōkwēte (“beech-wheat”).

    From Wiktionary

Buckwheat Sentence Examples

  • Buckwheat is cultivated mainly in Brittany.

  • The crop of buckwheat was 499,000 bushels (grown on 22,000 acres).

  • The buckwheat belt extends S.W.

  • When this happens there is great suffering from famine, for wheat is the crop upon which the people principally depend, though rye, buckwheat and oats are also cultivated.

  • The yellowish sandy plains on its left will grow nothing except oats, buckwheat and some rye.

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