Durum

noun

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Definitions

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

Synonyms

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durum wheathard wheatmacaroni wheattriticum durumtriticum turgidum

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"Much has been done in crossing Triticum durum Desf. and T. vulgare Vill.² in an attempt to produce common wheats that are as resistant to stem rust as are the durums."

Etymology

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

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