buckwheatlike
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]buckwheatlike (comparative more buckwheatlike, superlative most buckwheatlike)
- Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
- 1931, William Adams Dayton, Important Western Browse Plants, page 27:
- The rather small, compounded cymes of usually pinkish flowers appear from June to October, the buckwheatlike fruits maturing and disseminating from September to November.
- 2001, Paul E. Minnis, Wayne J. Elisens, Biodiversity and Native America, page 230:
- Erect knotweed (Polygonum erectum) has a buckwheatlike grain that seems to have undergone selection for size and for reduction of the numbers of thick-walled fruits produced on the same plants as fruits with thin pericarps […]