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WILD EMMER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild emmer mean?

• WILD EMMER (noun)
The noun WILD EMMER has 1 sense:

1. found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat

Familiarity information: WILD EMMER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• WILD EMMER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides; wild emmer; wild wheat

Hypernyms ("wild emmer" is a kind of...):

wheat (annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains)

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