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How to use buckwheat in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Buckwheat means an Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum. Example: “Buckwheat, quinoa and amaranth are pseudocereals.”

Examples of buckwheat by meaning

nounThe fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.

  • I'll need some buckwheat flapjack mix.2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 27, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 62

nounA slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.

  • In this case, the Profaci gunman must have witnessed a "buckwheat's" execution, where an example is being made of the victim by inflicting pain for a prolonged period.2000, Olindo Romeo Chiocca, Mobsters and Thugs: Quotes from the Underworld, page 17
  • Mob murders are seldom buckwheats, being instead simple business matters.2006, Carl Sifakis, The Mafia Encyclopedia, page 66

More sentences with buckwheat

  • Buckwheat, quinoa and amaranth are pseudocereals.From the entry pseudocereal
  • In Bumthang, khule (buckwheat pancakes) and puta (buckwheat noodles) replace rice as the foundation of many meals.2024, Bradley Mayhew, Lindsay Fegent-Brown, Galey Tenzin, Bhutan, Lonely Planet, →ISBN. From the entry puta
  • Me: Is a buckwheat porridge good for me to eat now?2017 July 26, Alexander Khomoutov, “The message from Gosha: Love yourself first or die”, in Heal Yourself! Discover Quantum Healing…. From the entry borodinskii bread
  • Buckwheat is a cosmopolitan pseudocereal with limited production compared to cereals with higher yields.2006, Franc Bavec, Martina Bavec, Organic Production and Use of Alternative Crops, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry pseudocereal
  • I find that buckwheat, wholewheat and oatflake flours give the best results.1979, Sue Bennett, Food Naturally: A Wholefood Cookbook, London: W. H. Allen, →ISBN, pages 28, 69, and 130. From the entry oatflake
  • However, one who knows the buckwheat of the pioneer days can taste the difference.1952 February 13, “News Nibs”, in The Dunn County News, volume VIIIC, number 46, Menomonie, Wis., page one, column 2. From the entry buckwheaty
  • Buckwheat middlings is a fairly good feed for dairy cows, being far superior to buckwheat bran.1917, Carl William Larson, Fred Silver Putney, Dairy cattle feeding and management, page 95. From the entry middlings
  • Fall-gathered honey, with sufficient buckwheat to give it a buckwheaty flavor.1907 October 15, James McNeill, “Honey and Wax For Sale”, in Gleanings in Bee Culture, volume XXXV, number 20, Medina, Oh.: The A[mos]…. From the entry buckwheaty
  • At high altitudes wheat and buckwheat are the staples.2024, Bradley Mayhew, Lindsay Fegent-Brown, Galey Tenzin, Bhutan, Lonely Planet, →ISBN. From the entry puta
  • In fact, buckwheat is most popular in pancakes, on its own or mixed with wheat, as in blinys.1989, Josephine Bacon, “Buckwheat - Food for Peasants and Pheasants”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, 1989…. From the entry bliny
  • I especially appreciated the buckwheat, which they serve generously, and of course the yogurt, kompot (fruit drink) and borsch are always special.2015 June 13, Jeff Richards, “From Kiev, with love: Mission trip to Kiev Regional Bible College/Church of the Gospel, Vyshneve, Ukraine”…. From the entry kompot
  • Eriogonum umbellatum (sulfur buckwheat) – Native wildflower with showy sulfur yellow flower clusters in spring and rounded evergreen leaves that turn plum colored in winter.2004, Susan J. Tweit, “Indigestible Plants”, in The Rocky Mountain Garden Survival Guide, Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry plum colored
  • The remaining one fourth is generally used in the production of corn and hay, although some wheat, oats, rye, buckwheat, and birdeye beans are grown.1930, United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, Soil survey, page 35. From the entry birdeye
  • The sky was cloudless; the foliage of the wood scarce tinged with purple and gold; the buckwheat in yonder fields frostened into snowy ripeness.1922, Shoemaker's Best Selections for Readings and Recitations. From the entry frosten
  • Usually made with cold buckwheat noodles, naengmyeon, or thin wheat flour noodles, somyeon, it’s also good with Vietnamese rice noodles (or so I say, but I’m a heathen).2016 July 1, David Tanis, “Spicy Cold Noodles Offer an Antidote to Summer Heat”, in New York Times. From the entry somyeon

Meaning of buckwheat

  1. noun An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.
  2. noun The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
  3. noun Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.

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Questions about buckwheat in a sentence

How do you use buckwheat in a sentence?
Buckwheat is used as a noun. For example: “Buckwheat, quinoa and amaranth are pseudocereals.”
What is a short sentence with buckwheat?
“Buckwheat, quinoa and amaranth are pseudocereals.”
What does buckwheat mean?
Buckwheat means an Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.

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