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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
Sense 1
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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