buckwheat
part of speech
noun (buckwheat — uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) A plant grown for its small, triangle-shaped seeds, which are cooked like grain or ground into flour. tree →
2) The seeds or flour of this plant, used for porridge, pancakes and noodles. tree →
sense in the lessons
In food and science lessons, buckwheat is surprising: despite its name it is not a kind of wheat and has no gluten, so people with coeliac disease can eat it. In world-food lessons it appears in Japanese soba noodles, French galettes (Brittany crêpes) and Ukrainian, Russian and Polish «kasha» (hrechka in Ukrainian).
examples
- Buckwheat is not related to wheat. tree →
- Grandma cooks buckwheat porridge for breakfast. tree →
- Soba noodles are made from buckwheat flour. tree →
- Buckwheat pancakes are popular in Brittany. tree →
- My friend eats buckwheat because it has no gluten. tree →
- Bees love buckwheat flowers. tree →
- Ukrainian families often eat buckwheat with mushrooms. tree →
- Then they gave him the dog, and a buckwheat hearth-cake as provision by the way. tree →
note
Uncountable: «some buckwheat». Trap: the name contains «wheat», but buckwheat is gluten-free and is a seed related to rhubarb, not a grass. Written as one word.
Trees and pragmatics
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