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einkorn wheat

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A type of wheat, characterised by the presence of a single grain in each spikelet, that was cultivated in the Fertile Crescent and was one of the first grains to be domesticated; any subtype of said wheat, considered as a unit; in particular, the domesticated form.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 2001, Bruce D. Smith, Chapter 6: The Transition to Food Production, Gary M. Feinman, T. Douglas Price (editors), Archaeology at the Millennium: A Sourcebook, Springer, 2007, Softcover, page 207, A team of researchers from Norway, Germany, and Italy, for example, has recently pinpointed the particular populations of modern wild einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum subsp. boeoticum) that best fit the profile of those stands that probably gave rise about 10,000 years ago in the Near East to domesticated einkorn (Heun et al., 1997).

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: little spelt

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: hulled wheat

History

Etymology

Borrowed from German Einkorn (literally “single grain”).

Across languages

Translations

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: адназярня́нка (adnazjarnjánka) — wheat type
  • Catalan: espelta petita — wheat type
  • Dutch: eenkoorn — wheat type
  • Finnish: yksijyvävehnä — wheat type
  • French: engrain — wheat type
  • French: petit épeautre — wheat type
  • French: engrain sauvage — wheat type
  • German: Einkorn — wheat type
  • German: kleiner Spelz — wheat type
  • Ancient Greek: ζειά (zeiá) — wheat type
  • Ancient Greek: τίφη (típhē) — wheat type
  • Hungarian: alakor — wheat type
  • Italian: farro piccolo — wheat type
  • Italian: farricello — wheat type
  • Polish: pszenica samopsza — wheat type
  • Romanian: alac — wheat type
  • Spanish: escanda — wheat type
  • Spanish: escaña cultivada — wheat type
  • Spanish: escaña silvestre — wheat type
  • Turkish: siyez buğday — wheat type
  • Turkish: kaplıca — wheat type