buckwheat
An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. 16
Other meanings
The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
A kind of
- herb
Word history
From Middle Dutch "boecweit".
Where this comes from
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