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Definition of Triticum durum
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Wheat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triticum Durum
Literary usage of Triticum durum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger (1889)
"... and regularly laminated (Fig. 6 A), but the layers are usually hard to FIG.
6.—Wheat-meal from Triticum durum. A, a large, B, small grains. ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"Triticum durum (durum wheat). ... to distinguish between some forms of Triticum
durum (subspecies of T. tenax) and Triticum dicoccum (small species of the ..."
3. Gene Expression in Field Crops: Bibliography January 1991-November 1992 edited by Janet Saunders, Robert D. Warmbrodt (1995)
"Language: English Descriptors: Thinopyrum; Triticum durum; Inter- generic
hybridization; Backcrossing; Nucleolus organizer; Dna hybridization; С bands; ..."
4. Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans: the Results of Researches and by Heinrich Schliemann (1881)
"Triticum durum, a grain; 4, Coronilla sp.; 5, several other weed-seeds (three
grains). " Among these seeds the pease as well as the vetch are missing. ..."