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# buckwheat

noun (buckwheat — uncountable)

«buckwheat» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A plant grown for its small, triangle-shaped seeds, which are cooked like grain or ground into flour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buckwheat/#m1)
2. The seeds or flour of this plant, used for porridge, pancakes and noodles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buckwheat/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buckwheat/#x1)
- Grandma cooks buckwheat porridge for breakfast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buckwheat/#x2)
- Soba noodles are made from buckwheat flour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buckwheat/#x3)
- Buckwheat pancakes are popular in Brittany. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buckwheat/#x4)
- My friend eats buckwheat because it has no gluten. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buckwheat/#x5)
- Bees love buckwheat flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buckwheat/#x6)
- Ukrainian families often eat buckwheat with mushrooms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buckwheat/#x7)
- Then they gave him the dog, and a buckwheat hearth-cake as provision by the way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buckwheat/#x8)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «buckwheat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buckwheat/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«buckwheat» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/buckwheat.html) on Mova free.