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Wheat used in pasta
Answer for the clue "Wheat used in pasta ", 5 letters:
durum
Alternative clues for the word durum
- Wheat anyone can see in part of kitchen
- Semolina source
- Spaghetti wheat
- Kind of wheat container you heard brought in
- 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
- Variety of wheat
Word definitions for durum in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context often used attributively English) A hard variety of wheat, (taxlink Triticum turgidum species noshow=1) or (taxlink Triticum durum species noshow=1), whose flour is used to make pasta and bread.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 [syn: durum wheat , hard wheat , Triticum durum , Triticum turgidum , macaroni wheat ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
species of wheat, 1908, from Latin durum , neuter of durus "hard" (see endure ). The seeds are tough.
Usage examples of durum.
Then the empty but now inflated durum wheat bags are stacked in the warehouse.
Going back to the laboratory report, Rosetti said the boy's stomach contained the undigested remains of rice and durum wheat, and meat traces from three of the girls' digestive tracts had been identified as lamb.
Bags labeled DURUM WHEAT-PRODUCED IN AUSTRALIA BY AUSSIES were stacked to the rafters of the low building as far as the beam of Satto's light would penetrate.
The deck of the ship was bathed in floodlights, as it took on durum wheat from North Dakota.