Word.ws English Dictionary

tritordeum

/tɹɪˈtɔː(ɹ)di.əm/

tritordeum noun: an amphiploid cereal derived from the cross between a South American wild barley (Hordeum chilense) and durum wheat.

Noun

tritordeum

  1. An amphiploid cereal derived from the cross between a South American wild barley (Hordeum chilense) and durum wheat.
    • In terms of yield, breeding in Tritordeum has allowed an increase to up to 80% of that of commercial wheat cultivars, maintaining a protein content approximately 5% higher than in wheat.2012, Indra K. Vasil, editor, Molecular improvement of cereal crops, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 372

Origin of tritordeum

From the genus name, New Latin Tritordeum, apparently a blend of Triticum (“wheat”) + Hordeum (“barley”).

Questions about tritordeum

What does tritordeum mean?
Tritordeum means an amphiploid cereal derived from the cross between a South American wild barley (Hordeum chilense) and durum wheat.
What part of speech is tritordeum?
Tritordeum is a noun.
How do you pronounce tritordeum?
Tritordeum is pronounced /tɹɪˈtɔː(ɹ)di.əm/.

Words near tritordeum in the dictionary

  1. tritonymphal
  2. tritonymphs
  3. tritoon
  4. tritoons
  5. tritoqualine
  6. tritordeum
  7. tritoria
  8. tritorium
  9. tritosternum
  10. tritova
  11. tritovum

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tritordeum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tritordeum.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tritordeum. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.