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Fagopyrum

noun

buckwheat; in some classifications included in the genus Polygonum

• Syn: ↑genus Fagopyrum

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Polygonaceae, ↑family Polygonaceae, ↑buckwheat family

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\\-ˈpīrəm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin fagus beech + New Latin -o- + -pyrum (from Greek pyros wheat) — more at beech, furze

: a genus of European and Asiatic annual plants (family Polygonaceae) having the achene much exceeding the perianth but otherwise resembling members of the genus Polygonum — see buckwheat

Useful english dictionary. 2012.