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Buckwheat

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A corruption of boc. German, buche, beech-wheat; it is so called because it is triangular, like beechmast. The botanical name is Fagopyrum (beech-wheat).

“The buckwheat

Whitened broad acres, sweetening with its flowers

The August wind.”

Bryant: The Fountain, stanza 7.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Saracen Wheat (French, Blé-sar-rasin)