buckwheatlike

adj

buckwheatlike

adj

Etymology From buckwheat + -like.

1

Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.

  • The rather small, compounded cymes of usually pinkish flowers appear from June to October, the buckwheatlike fruits maturing and disseminating from September to November.1931, William Adams Dayton, Important Western Browse Plants, page 27:
  • 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 […]2001, Paul E. Minnis, Wayne J. Elisens, Biodiversity and Native America, page 230:

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