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BUCKWHEAT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grain ground into flour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("buckwheat" is a kind of...):

cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)

Holonyms ("buckwheat" is a part of...):

buckwheat; Fagopyrum esculentum; Polygonum fagopyrum (a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour

Synonyms:

buckwheat; Fagopyrum esculentum; Polygonum fagopyrum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("buckwheat" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Meronyms (parts of "buckwheat"):

buckwheat (grain ground into flour)

Holonyms ("buckwheat" is a member of...):

genus Polygonum; Polygonum (diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions)

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