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Durum

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Ellipsis of durum wheat. abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, ellipsis, often, uncountable, usually

    "durum pasta"

  2. 2
    wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America wordnet

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin dūrum, nominative neuter singular of dūrus (“hard”). Doublet of dour and dure.

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