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词汇 einkorn
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Definition of einkorn in English:

einkorn

noun ˈʌɪnkɔːnˈaɪnkɔrn
mass noun
  • An old kind of wheat with small bearded ears and spikelets that each contain one slender grain, used as fodder in prehistoric times but now rarely grown.

    单粒小麦(原始小麦种类,史前曾被用作饲料,现在罕有种植)。比较EMMER , SPELT

    Triticum monococcum, family Gramineae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bread wheat was the accidental ‘unnatural’ crossing of einkorn and then emmer wheat with another species.
    • Domesticates included herded sheep and goats together with hulled barley, and emmer and einkorn wheat.
    • Three species exist both as wild and domesticated wheats, einkorn, emmer, and breadwheat.
    • Unlike einkorn, barley has a long history of cultivation in the Fertile Crescent.
    • Albert the archaeology student was in the university library, slumped over an untidy heap of palynological textbooks that traced the emergence of the emmer and the einkorn on the Fertile Crescent some six or seven thousand years ago.

Origin

Early 20th century: from German, from ein 'one' + Korn 'seed'.

Definition of einkorn in US English:

einkorn

nounˈaɪnkɔrnˈīnkôrn
  • An old kind of Mediterranean wheat with small bearded ears and spikelets that each contain one slender grain, used as fodder in prehistoric times but now rarely grown.

    单粒小麦(原始小麦种类,史前曾被用作饲料,现在罕有种植)。比较EMMER , SPELT

    Triticum monococcum, family Gramineae

    Compare with emmer, spelt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bread wheat was the accidental ‘unnatural’ crossing of einkorn and then emmer wheat with another species.
    • Albert the archaeology student was in the university library, slumped over an untidy heap of palynological textbooks that traced the emergence of the emmer and the einkorn on the Fertile Crescent some six or seven thousand years ago.
    • Three species exist both as wild and domesticated wheats, einkorn, emmer, and breadwheat.
    • Unlike einkorn, barley has a long history of cultivation in the Fertile Crescent.
    • Domesticates included herded sheep and goats together with hulled barley, and emmer and einkorn wheat.

Origin

Early 20th century: from German, from ein ‘one’ + Korn ‘seed’.

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