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单词 emmer
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Definition of emmer in English:

emmer

noun ˈɛməˈemər
mass noun
  • A long-established species of wheat with bearded ears and spikelets that each contain two grains, now grown mainly for fodder and breakfast cereals.

    双粒小麦。比较EINKORN , SPELT

    Triticum dicoccum, family Gramineae

    Compare with einkorn, spelt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The many thousands of grains comprise not just emmer and naked barley, but also bread wheat - which points clearly to the Neolithic - and linseed.
    • Most of the time aysh is made from barley and emmer wheat, the most common crops in Egypt.
    • The most complete evidence has come from the Near East, where domesticated barley and emmer wheat strains have been found which date from about 8000 BC.
    • About 2,500 of the grains are from wild barley and 100 from wild emmer wheat.
    • Other Iron Age crops included the more ancient emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum, which was grown on light soils), bread wheat, oats, rye, peas, Celtic beans, and flax.
    • Bread wheat was the accidental ‘unnatural’ crossing of einkorn and then emmer wheat with another species.
    • Three species exist both as wild and domesticated wheats, einkorn, emmer, and breadwheat.
    • About 10,000 years ago, nomadic tribes began cultivating grains such as linkorn and emmer, the ancestors of wheat.
    • In England, thatching straw would have been obtained primarily from spelt wheat which replaced emmer wheat as the staple throughout southern England in the Iron Age.
    • Ancient or modern farmers have grown four wheat species: einkorn, emmer, timopheevi, and common (hexaploid, or bread) wheat.

Origin

Early 20th century: from German, from Old High German amer 'spelt'.

Rhymes

contemner, dilemma, Emma, Jemma, lemma, maremma, stemma, tremor

Definition of emmer in US English:

emmer

nounˈemər
  • An old kind of Eurasian wheat with bearded ears and spikelets that each contain two grains, now grown mainly for fodder and breakfast cereals.

    双粒小麦。比较EINKORN , SPELT

    Triticum dicoccum, family Gramineae

    Compare with einkorn, spelt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In England, thatching straw would have been obtained primarily from spelt wheat which replaced emmer wheat as the staple throughout southern England in the Iron Age.
    • Most of the time aysh is made from barley and emmer wheat, the most common crops in Egypt.
    • The many thousands of grains comprise not just emmer and naked barley, but also bread wheat - which points clearly to the Neolithic - and linseed.
    • Three species exist both as wild and domesticated wheats, einkorn, emmer, and breadwheat.
    • About 10,000 years ago, nomadic tribes began cultivating grains such as linkorn and emmer, the ancestors of wheat.
    • The most complete evidence has come from the Near East, where domesticated barley and emmer wheat strains have been found which date from about 8000 BC.
    • Bread wheat was the accidental ‘unnatural’ crossing of einkorn and then emmer wheat with another species.
    • Ancient or modern farmers have grown four wheat species: einkorn, emmer, timopheevi, and common (hexaploid, or bread) wheat.
    • Other Iron Age crops included the more ancient emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum, which was grown on light soils), bread wheat, oats, rye, peas, Celtic beans, and flax.
    • About 2,500 of the grains are from wild barley and 100 from wild emmer wheat.

Origin

Early 20th century: from German, from Old High German amer ‘spelt’.

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