Buckwheat

Buck′wheatˊ

,

Noun.

[

Buck

a beech tree +

wheat

; akin to D.

boekweit

, G.

buchweizen

.]

1.

(Bot.)

A plant (

Fagopyrum esculentum

) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.

2.

The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.

Buckwheat

BUCK'WHEAT

,

Noun.

A plant and a species of grain; called also brank. It belongs to the genus polygonum, or knot-grass. It is cultivated as food for beasts, and the flour is much used in America for breakfast cakes.

buckwheat

English

Buckwheat (plant)

Wikispecies

Noun

buckwheat ‎(usually uncountable, plural buckwheats)

An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.
The fruit of this plant used as a cereal.
(western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum

Derived terms

Translations

Fagopyrum esculentum plant

Bashkir: ҡарабойҙай ‎(qaraboyðay)
Finnish: viljatatar (fi), tattari (fi)
Georgian: წიწიბურა ‎(c̣ic̣ibura)
German: Buchweizen (de) m
Italian: grano saraceno m
Kalmyk: меерә ‎(meyerä)

Portuguese: trigo-mouro m, trigo-mourisco m, trigo-sarraceno (pt) m, fagópiro m
Russian: гречи́ха (ru) f ‎(grečíxa)
Scottish Gaelic: cruithneachd-buidhe m
Spanish: alforfón (es) m
Swedish: bovete n
Tagalog: hayang trigo

fruit of this plant as cereal

Afrikaans: bokwiet
Arabic: حِنْطَة سَوْدَاء f ‎(ḥinṭa sawdāʾ)
Armenian: հնդկացորեն (hy) ‎(hndkacʿoren)
Azeri: qarabaşaq yarması
Bashkir: ҡарабойҙай ‎(qaraboyðay)
Belarusian: грэ́чка (be) f ‎(hréčka)
Bulgarian: елда f ‎(elda)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 蕎麥, 荞麦 ‎(kiu⁴ mak⁶)

Mandarin: 蕎麥 (zh), 荞麦 (zh) ‎(qiáomài)
Czech: pohanka (cs) f
Danish: boghvede c
Dutch: boekweit (nl) n, beuktarwe m
Esperanto: poligono
Estonian: tatar
Finnish: tattari (fi)
French: blé sarrasin m, blé noir (fr) m, sarrasin (fr) m
Gallo: bié naïr m
Georgian: წიწიბურა ‎(c̣ic̣ibura)
German: Buchweizen (de) m
Hebrew: כוסמת (he) f ‎(kusémet)
Hindi: कूटू (hi) ‎(kūṭū)
Hungarian: hajdina (hu)
Icelandic: bókhveiti n, bæki (is) n
Irish: ruán m
Italian: grano saraceno m
Japanese: 蕎麦 (ja) ‎(そば, soba), ソバ ‎(soba)
Kalmyk: меерә ‎(meyerä)

Kazakh: қарақұмық ‎(qaraqumıq)
Korean: 메밀 (ko) ‎(memil)
Latvian: griķi (lv) m pl
Lithuanian: grikiai m pl
Lojban: xruba
Macedonian: елда f ‎(elda)
Manchu: ᠮᡝᡵᡝ ‎(mere)
Maori: witi paka
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bokhvete
Polish: gryka (pl) f
Portuguese: trigo-mouro m, trigo-mourisco m, trigo-sarraceno (pt) m
Romanian: hrișcă (ro) f
Russian: гречи́ха (ru) f ‎(grečíxa), гре́чка (ru) f ‎(gréčka)
Scottish Gaelic: cruithneachd-buidhe m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: хељда f

Roman: heljda (sh) f
Sichuan Yi: ꈾ ‎(mge)
Slovak: pohánka (sk) f
Slovene: ajda (sl) f
Spanish: alforfón (es) m
Swedish: bovete n
Turkish: karabuğday (tr)
Ukrainian: гре́чка f ‎(hréčka)
Uzbek: grechka, marjumak
Vietnamese: lúa mạch, kiều mạch
Welsh: gwenith yr haidd pl

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