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buckwheatlike

buckwheatlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.

Adjective

buckwheatlike (comparative more buckwheatlike, superlative most buckwheatlike)

  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

Forms of buckwheatlike

comparativemore buckwheatlike
superlativemost buckwheatlike

Origin of buckwheatlike

From buckwheat + -like.

Questions about buckwheatlike

What does buckwheatlike mean?
Buckwheatlike means resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
What part of speech is buckwheatlike?
Buckwheatlike is an adjective.

Words near buckwheatlike in the dictionary

  1. buckwheat coal
  2. buckwheat coals
  3. buckwheat note
  4. buckwheater
  5. buckwheaters
  6. buckwheatlike
  7. buckwheats
  8. buckwheaty
  9. bucky
  10. bucky bit
  11. bucky bits

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