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Hard Wheat

Definition: Hard Wheat

Hard Wheat

Noun

1. Wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America.

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Specialty Definitions: Hard Wheat

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

Wheat of the triticum durum species and the hybrids derived from the interspecific crossing of triticum durum with the same number of chromosomes as that species. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonyms: Hard Wheat

Synonyms: durum (n), durum wheat (n), maccaroni wheat (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hard Wheat

English words defined with "hard wheat": durum, durum wheatemmermaccaroni wheat, Manna croupsemolina, starch wheatTriticum dicoccum, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum, two-grain spelt. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hard wheat": farina V.S.Wheat. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hard Wheat

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Peru

Best prospects for agricultural products are hard wheat, yellow corn, milled rice, and processed and consumer ready foods. (references)

Spain

Boosted by a rapidly diversifying market for bakery products, Spain needs to import hard wheat to blend with its softer local supplies. (references)

Trade

Colombia

For soft wheat, the floor and ceiling prices are based on hard red winter wheat, which tends to result in a higher import duty for soft wheat, since hard wheat is generally more expensive than soft wheat. (references)

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Modern Translations: Hard Wheat

Language Translations for "hard wheat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

hård hvede (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

harde tarwe (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat), glastarwe (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat), durumtarwe (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat), durum (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat). (various references)

   

French

  

froment dur, blé durum, blé dur, blé d'Afrique, blé grains durs. (various references)

   

German

  

Hartweizen (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat), Glasweizen (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκληρό σιτάρι (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat), σιτάρι σκληρό (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat), σίτος ο σκληρός (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat), τρίτικος ο σκληρός (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat). (various references)

   

Italian

  

frumento duro (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ardhay eatwhay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

trigo rijo (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat), trigo durum (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat), trigo duro (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trigo semolero (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat), trigo moro (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat), trigo duro (durum wheat, flint wheat, macaroni wheat). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hard Wheat

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Triticum durum. (various references)

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Anagrams: Hard Wheat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-h-r-t-w"

-2 letters: hardhat, thrawed, warhead, wrathed.

-3 letters: dearth, hatred, hearth, thawed, thawer, thread, warted, wreath.

-4 letters: aahed, ahead, arhat, award, aware, dater, death, derat, dewar, earth, hared, hated, hater, hawed, heard, heart, heath, rated, rathe, reata, tared, tawed, tawer, thraw, threw, trade, tread, wader, wared, water, wheat, wrath.

-5 letters: area, awed, dare, dart, data, date, dawt, dear, drat, draw, drew, eath, haar, hade, haed, haet, haha, hard, hare, hart, hate, hath, head, hear, heat, herd, heth, rate, rath, read, rhea, tahr, tare, tear, thae, thaw, thew, trad, twae, wade, ward, ware, wart, wear, wert, what, whet.

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Alternative Orthography: Hard Wheat


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 72 64      57 68 65 61 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#114 &#100 &#32 &#87 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0072 0064      0057 0068 0065 0061 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4267847025774716786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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