It's name comes from Dutch meaning "beech wheat" -- its fruits resemble beechnuts
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Buckwheat - Cereal  Nov 12, 2013 ... The 'beech' part comes from its resemblance to the beechnut, while the 'wheat' ... It is actually a fruit seed of a member of the rhubarb family, and related to sorrel. ... The name simply means 'porridge' and could just as easily be made from ... Ground into flour, it's made into blini and blintz in Eastern Europe,...
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What is buckwheat? - Herbal Supplements - Sharecare  Its name comes from the Dutch word "beech weit" which means "beech wheat" probably a reference to the plant's triangular fruits which resemble beech nuts.
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National Origin: Finger Lakes; A Heartland Crop, A New York Address  Oct 20, 1999 ... Botanically, it's a fruit related to rhubarb, and the grain it produces is actually the seed of the plant. ... The crop got its name from the Dutch boek-weit, meaning beech wheat, because the little kernels resemble beechnuts.
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Eden Foods Soba, 100% Buckwheat - Imported Traditional - Pasta  Despite the name, buckwheat is not wheat and is not related to wheat. ... Its old northern European name was "beech wheat" in reference to its small, black, triangular seeds that although much smaller, resemble beech nuts of a beech tree. ... the Dutch name "boecweite" or "boekweite": 'boek' meaning beech and 'weite'...
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Buckwheat - WholeHealthMD  Buckwheat isn't related to wheat and is not a true grain, but rather the fruit of a plant ... probably comes from the Dutch bockweit, which means "beech wheat"--most ... plant's triangular fruits, which resemble beechnuts, and their wheatlike uses.
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Game # Jeopardy Review Game Answer Key - Super Teacher Tools  #4, This unloved cabbage family member is named for the capital of Belgium, brussel sprouts. #5, In Latin a pirum is one of these fruits, not two, pear...
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Fru1ts & Vegetab1es Flashcards | Quizlet  FRUITS & VEGETABLES $100: The name of this vegetable comes from the Latin words caulis -- "stalk" -- & flos -- "flower". Cauliflower.
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In the Land of Shared Guilt | San Diego Reader  Aug 10, 1995 ... The word eucalyptus comes from the Greek eu, good, and kalypto, to cover  as in a lid. This refers to the septals and petals in each tree, which fuse into a cap that ... MacPhail's book on Kate Sessions (Pioneer Horticulturist) gives the ... Species of Eucs that would be in scrubby little mallees in Australia...
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CHAPTER V SOME LITTLE REGARDED WILD FRUITS AND ...  read that the name Buffalo-berry is derived from the ... Its white, scurfy berries, while in a sense edible, are too dry and mealy for most ... Of these the red berries of ... To the same family belongs the genus Physalis, ... Pyrus, whose fruit was known as serb, serve or service; June- ..... two species (Opuntia vulgaris, Mill., and 0.
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Hazelnut - Wikipedia  Hazelnut is the nut of the hazel and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus Corylus, especially the nuts of the species Corylus avellana. It is also known as cobnut or filbert nut according to species.
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Etymologically Speaking...  Some of these are English, but some are French and German words from which ... which was a scented, golden apple first raised by and named after Matius, a friend of ..... From "thaler" -- a nickname for the silver coins that were minted from the ore .... Too much yellow bile and you saw the world through a "bilious" eye , and...
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The Food Timeline--fruit  She does not define fruit but she does list examples: Apples, Oranges, Grapes, ... Some plant parts commonly called fruits, such a s blackberries, raspberries, ... This is because early words denoting round tree fruit did not necessarily ...... The word is from the Algonquin, akin to the Cree word for dried fruit, pasiminan, first...
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Nut name comes from St. Philibert, a Frankish abbot - Deseret News  Dec 26, 1999 ... Answer:The nut you fancy is named after St. Philibert, a 7th century Frankish abbot. ... fact that his feast day (the day in the church calendar on which he is ... 20, which just happens to be the peak of the nutting season in France and England. The Anglo-French word for the nut of the hazel tree was "philber,"...
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Taxonomy of the Jerusalem artichoke or Sunchoke  Sep 3, 2015 ... The Jerusalem artichoke, also called the sunroot, sunchoke, earth ... Another theory suggests the name is a corruption of Terneuzen, the Dutch city from ... Jerusalem artichoke's name comes from the taste of its edible tuber.
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Persimmon Definition. Crossword Dictionary. - Crosswords911.com  Although a popular common name of the fruit is white sapote because of its white ... tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, having hard wood and orange-red fruit...
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Best Cruller Recipes and Cruller Cooking Ideas - The Daily Meal  Sep 19, 2011 ... A fried cake and sister to the doughnut, which takes its name from the Dutch word krulle, meaning &quot;twisted cake.&quot; French crullers are...
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Glossary of Latin roots.DOC  acer- = referring to the genus, Acer, the ancient Latin name of the maple tree .... is a leaf-like OR petal-like structure beneath the true petals of some flowers (bracteosum) ... referring to a fruit (megacarpus = big fruited / macrocarpon = large fruit) .... palm, whose nut (fruit) with its three eyes looks to some like a monkey's face...
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Gethsemane | The amazing name Gethsemane: meaning and ...  Surprisingly, the name of the famous garden of Gethsemane is mentioned ... of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (compare Genesis 3:6 to 1 ... The first part comes from the word  (gat), meaning press: ... Moresheth-gath  ... 109:24, Isaiah 5:1), but mostly denoting olive oil ( , shemen zayit).
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Cooking - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Bundt Trademarked name for a fluted tube pan or the cake baked in it .... Vinegar French for "sour wine", one variety is literally just that, Though its name means "sour wine", it can be made from berries, melons & cereal, not just grapes. Waldorf...
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Terminology of the Low Countries - Wikipedia  The Low Countries is the coastal RhineMeuseScheldt delta region in Western Europe and ... For the sum of food consumed by a person, see Diet (nutrition). ... At the time the language was spoken, it was known as *iudisk, meaning "of the .... subsequently during the Middle Ages influenced from Middle Dutch, were it...
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Tomato - Wikipedia  The tomato (see pronunciation) is the edible, red fruit of Solanum lycopersicum, commonly ... The scientific species epithet lycopersicum means "wolf peach", and comes from ... These legends said that deadly nightshade was used by witches and ... The Italian word, pomodoro (from pomo d'oro "apple of gold") was borrowed...