| 单词 | buckwheat |
| 释义 | buckwheat (once / 6084 pages) n Buckwheat is a grain that's grown, harvested, and milled into flour. Some people prefer hearty buckwheat pancakes to the lighter and fluffier white flour version. Despite the similar names, buckwheat isn't related to wheat — its closer cousins are rhubarb and sorrel. It grows triangular-shaped seeds that can be cooked and eaten whole or ground into flour for use in foods like Japanese soba noodles. The word comes from the Middle Dutch boecweite, "beech wheat," based on buckwheat's resemblance to the seeds of the beech tree. WORD FAMILYbuckwheat: buckwheats USAGE EXAMPLESMusician who rose from a cotton-picking family in southwest Louisiana to introduce zydeco music to the world through his band Buckwheat Zydeco. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) Analysis revealed remnants of an exotic diet of fig, grapes, pepper and buckwheat. BBC(Nov 17, 2016) Or try slicing squash into thin strips, dip into a buckwheat batter and deep-fry them. Los Angeles Times(Nov 11, 2016) 1n a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour Syn|Hyper Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests 2n grain ground into flour Hyper cereal, food grain, grain foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
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