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buckwheat.

An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbʌkʍiːt//ˈbʌkwiːt/
  1. An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.

    uncountable · usually
  2. The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.

    uncountable · usually
  3. Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.

    US · Western · uncountable · usually
  4. A slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.

    slang · uncountable · usually
  5. The curly hair of a black person.

    US · derogatory · ethnic · offensive · slang · slur · uncountable · usually
  6. Pubic hair.

    slang · uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

Ultimately from Middle Low German bōkwête (“beech-wheat”) (so called because of its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree, and the fact that it is used like wheat), probably via Middle Dutch boecweit, boecweite. Compare German Buchweizen. Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat, as it is not a grass.

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