noun
annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions
• Syn: ↑genus Triticum
• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms:
↑Gramineae, ↑family Gramineae, ↑Graminaceae, ↑family Graminaceae, ↑Poaceae, ↑family Poaceae, ↑grass family
• Member Meronyms: ↑wheat
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\\ˈtrid.ə̇kəm\ noun1. capitalized : a genus of cereal grasses including the wheats and distinguished by the 2- to 5-flowered flattened spikelets in a terminal cylindrical spike with a flexuous rachis
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Triticum /tritˈi-kəm/
noun
The wheat genus of grasses
ORIGIN: L trīticum wheat, from terere, trītum to rub
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tritˈicale noun
A hybrid cereal grass, a cross between wheat and rye, grown as a food crop
triticeous /-ishˈəs/ adjective
Wheatlike
Useful english dictionary. 2012.