Usually means: Gluten-free, nutritious, grain-like seed.
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  1. buckwheat: Merriam-Webster
  2. buckwheat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buckwheat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buckwheat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. buckwheat: Vocabulary.com
  6. buckwheat: Wordnik
  7. buckwheat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. buckwheat: Wiktionary
  9. buckwheat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. buckwheat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. buckwheat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Buckwheat: Dictionary.com
  13. Buckwheat (disambiguation), Buckwheat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Buckwheat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. buckwheat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. buckwheat: Rhymezone
  17. Buckwheat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. buckwheat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. BUCKWHEAT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. Buckwheat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. buckwheat: FreeDictionary.org
  22. buckwheat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. buckwheat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. buckwheat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. buckwheat: Dictionary.com
  26. buckwheat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  27. Buckwheat: Wordnik
  28. buckwheat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buckwheat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. buckwheat: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  2. Buckwheat: HYPP Zoology

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Buckwheat (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. buckwheat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Buckwheat: Body Building

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. [from 16th c.]
▸ noun:  (cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
▸ noun:  (Western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
▸ noun:  (slang) A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
▸ noun:  (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.
▸ noun:  (slang) Pubic hair.
▸ noun:  (humorous, derogatory) Barack Obama.

Similar:
wild buckwheat, bucku, Conejo buckwheat, sulfur buckwheat, buckbean, sulfurflower, skeletonweed, sulphurflower, fuki, buckram, more...

Types:
groats, kasha, more...

Phrases:
buckwheat flour, buckwheat cakes, buckwheat groats, wild buckwheat, buckwheat family, more...

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wild, common, japanese, little, false, whole, more, tartary, white, bitter, cooked

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Similar:
wild buckwheat, bucku, Conejo buckwheat, sulfur buckwheat, buckbean, sulfurflower, skeletonweed, sulphurflower, fuki, buckram, more...

Types:
groats, kasha, more...

Phrases:
buckwheat flour, buckwheat cakes, buckwheat groats, wild buckwheat, buckwheat family, buckwheat honey, buckwheat cake, tartary buckwheat, california buckwheat, buckwheat tree, buckwheat coal, Buckwheat Boyz, more...

Adjectives:
wild, common, japanese, little, false, whole, more, tartary, white, bitter, cooked

Colors:
    beige,     brown,     tan,     cream,     ivory, more...



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