durum wheat

durum wheat
noun
wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America
• Hypernyms: ↑wheat

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\\ˈd(y)u̇r]əm-, -)ər]\ noun also durum (-s)
Etymology: New Latin durum (specific epithet of Triticum durum), from Latin, neuter of durus hard — more at dure
: a wheat (Triticum durum) that occurs in several cultivated varieties, is grown especially in southern Russia, No. Africa, and north central No. America as a spring wheat, has slender compact spikes with spikelets containing two to four very hard translucent white or red kernels, and yields a flour which is high in gluten-producing proteins and is chiefly used in making semolina, macaroni, and spaghetti

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/door"euhm, dyoor"-/
a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta. Also called durum, macaroni wheat.
[1905-10; < NL, the earlier specific epithet. See DURE1]

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du|rum «DUR uhm, DYUR-», noun, or durum wheat,
a species of wheat from whose hard grain or kernels the flour used in macaroni, spaghetti, and the like, is made.
╂[< Latin dūrum, neuter of dūrus hard]

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durum 7 [ˈdjʊərəm] [ˈdʊrəm] (also ˌdurum ˈwheat) noun uncountable
a type of hard ↑wheat, used to make ↑pasta
 
Word Origin:
[durum] early 20th cent.: from Latin, neuter of durus ‘hard’, used in the species name since 1798.

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