What is "einkorn"

Usage examples of "einkorn".

She dragged the poles to the field and left them while she gathered seed heads of einkorn wheat and rye for the rest of the afternoon, then dragged them back to the cave.

They had been collecting grains of broomcorn millet and wild rye from a mixed stand that also included the nodding seed heads of unripe two-row barley, and both einkorn and emmer wheat.

Beyond this spring, small gardens bloomed with greenery, thickly scented herbs, young shoots of einkorn, and trees laden with fruit, reddish like apples but rather more swollen and round.

She was tempted first by the covey of gray partridges she saw pecking at the ripe seeds of ryegrass and einkorn wheat.

The Caermelor Road had threaded its way through farmlands, past garths and granges, crofts and byres, alongside hedged meadows where cattle pondered or shepherds with crosiers in hand followed their flocks, past pitch-roofed haystacks, ponds teeming with ducks, tilled patches of worts in leafy rows, and burgeoning fields of einkorn, emmer, and spelt where hoop-backed reapers toiled, by vineyards glutted with overflow of clammy juice and moss-trunked orchards already ravished, the last windfalls rotting on the ground, their sweet decay choired by sucking insects.

GM tomatoes are as different from the crop of my youth as the einkorn and emmer they harvested in the Fertile Crescent with obsidian sickles.

In the case of einkorn wheat, for example, the main distinguishing trait between wild and cultivated varieties lies in the biology of seed dispersal.

Wild einkorn has brittle ears, and the individual spikelets break up at maturity to disperse the seed.

Of the three selfer cereals among them-- einkorn wheat, emmer wheat, and barley--the wheats offered the additional advantage of a high protein content, 8-14 percent.