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Beech Grove, Indiana — Infobox Settlement official name = City of Beech Grove, Indiana nickname Ole Buckeye = settlement type = City imagesize = image caption = image imagesize = image caption = image mapsize = 250x200px map caption = Location in the state of Indiana… … Wikipedia
English Lowlands beech forests — The term English Lowlands beech forests refers to a terrestrial ecoregion in Northern Europe, as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the European Environment Agency (EEA). [http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestria… … Wikipedia
buck|wheat — «BUHK HWEET», noun. 1. a plant with black or gray, triangular seeds and fragrant, white flowers. 2. the seeds, used as food for animals or ground into flour. 3. meal, flour, or batter made from buckwheat, popular in the United States as an… … Useful english dictionary
Buckwheat — Taxobox name = Common Buckwheat image width = 250px regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Caryophyllales familia = Polygonaceae genus = Fagopyrum species = F. esculentum binomial = Fagopyrum esculentum binomial… … Wikipedia
List of English words of Dutch origin — This is a list of words of Dutch language origin. However, note that this list does also include some words of which the etymology is uncertain, and that some may have been derived from Middle Low German equivalents instead or as well. Some of… … Wikipedia
buckwheat — /ˈbʌkwit/ (say bukweet) noun 1. a herbaceous plant, Fagopyrum esculentum, cultivated for its triangular seeds, which are used as a food for animals, and in the US made into a flour for cakes, etc. 2. the seeds of the buckwheat. 3. buckwheat flour …
buckwheat — buck•wheat [[t]ˈbʌkˌ(h)wit, ˌwit[/t]] n. 1) pln any of several plants of the genus Fagopyrum, of the buckwheat family, cultivated for their edible triangular seeds 2) pln coo the seeds of this plant, made into flour or a cereal 3) coo Also called … From formal English to slang
buckwheat — 1540s, from M.Du. boecweite beech wheat (Cf. Dan. boghvede, Swed. bovete, Ger. Buchweizen), so called from resemblance between grains and seed of beech trees. Possibly a native formation on the same model as the Dutch word … Etymology dictionary
buckwheat — buckwheatlike, adj. /buk hweet , weet /, n. 1. a plant, esp. Fagopyrum esculentum, cultivated for its triangular seeds, which are used as a feed for animals or made into a flour for human consumption, as in pancakes or cereal. Cf. buckwheat… … Universalium
buckwheat — noun an Asian plant of the dock family, producing starchy seeds used for fodder or milled into flour. [Fagopyrum esculentum.] Origin C16: from MDu. boecweite beech wheat , its grains being shaped like beechmast … English new terms dictionary
buckwheat — ► NOUN ▪ a plant producing starchy seeds used for fodder or milled into flour. ORIGIN Dutch boecweite beech wheat , its grains being shaped like beechmast … English terms dictionary
