buckwheat
荞麦,龅牙麦,灌浆料,灌肠
Definitions
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- : a plant, especially 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.Compare buckwheat family.
- : the seeds of this plant.
- : Also buckwheat flour . flour made from seeds of buckwheat.
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- : made with buckwheat flour: buckwheat pancakes.
Examples
Jacques Pépin’s vegetable soup recipe is satisfying, simple cooking at its bestIt’s also a primer on barley, buckwheat, corn, oats, rice, rye, sorghum and wheat — all of which are ancient grains.
For those unfamiliar, soba is buckwheat noodle dish—and they proved much more popular amongst the public.
There were no lines even around the stalls serving up free buckwheat and pork gruel.
The buckwheat with pork fat and boiled potatoes is served in cellophane bowls and is fresh and tasty.
Even skeptics are stocking up on a few extra kilos of buckwheat, pasta, oatmeal, rice, and salt “for the black day.”
I would cook her favorite, buckwheat with onions, which I was too busy to make when she was alive.
Woe unto me, etc.—Rather than eat the Czar's buckwheat mush—to study the Bible with its commentaries.
A piece of bread with a buckwheat cake, if only it can be procured, is a very good dinner indeed.
Certain fields under the plow are always infested with "blind nettles," others with wild buckwheat, black blindweed, or cockle.
One October, for many successive days, I saw one carrying into his hole buckwheat which he had stolen from a near field.
The hulls of corn, and especially the husks of oats and buckwheat, should also be separated in some way.