Crossword clues for emmer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
emmer \emmer\ n. a hard red wheat ( Triticum dicoccum) grown especially in Russia and Germany; also grown in the U. S. as stock feed.
Syn: starch wheat, two-grain spelt, Triticum dicoccum.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
species of wheat, 1908, from German Emmer, variant of Amelkorn, from amel "starch," from Latin amylum (see amyl).
Wiktionary
n. A species of wheat, (taxlink Triticum dicoccum species noshow=1).
WordNet
n. hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed [syn: starch wheat, two-grain spelt, Triticum dicoccum]
Wikipedia
Emmer wheat, also known as farro especially in Italy, or hulled wheat, is a type of awned wheat. Emmer is a tetraploid (2n=4x=28 chromosomes). The domesticated species are Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccum and Triticum turgidum conv. durum. The wild species is called Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccoides. The principal difference between the wild and the domestic species is that the ripened seed head of the wild species shatters and spreads the seed onto the ground while in the domesticated emmer the seed head remains intact, thus making it easier for humans to harvest the grain.
Along with Einkorn wheat, Emmer was one of the first crops domesticated in the Near East. It was widely cultivated in the ancient world, but is now a relict crop in mountainous regions of Europe and Asia.
Emmer is a low-yielding, awned wheat.
Emmer may also refer to:
- Frank Emmer (1896 - 1963), an American baseball player and the shortstop for the Cincinnati Reds
- Greg Emmer, former senior vice president of operations at the Disneyland Resort
- Huib Emmer (born 1951), a Dutch composer
- Luciano Emmer (1918 – 2009), an Italian film director
- Tom Emmer (born 1961), a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota
- Emmer, a Dutch word for bucket
Emmer is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany.
Usage examples of "emmer".
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.
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.
Emilio Sandoz was emmers aan het zweten met de opgekrulde Askama op zijn schoot en straalde in de namiddag hitte uit als een vierde zon.
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.
But their initial selection of barley and emmer wheat rather than other cereals to collect, bring home, and cultivate would have been conscious and based on the easily detected criteria of seed size, palatability, and abundance.
Employing sophisticated methods of radiocarbon dating and plant genetics, many scholars from various fields of science concur in the conclusion that Man's first farming venture was the cultivation of wheat and barley, probably through the domestication of a wild variety of emmer.
Emmer wheat grew in the valley, too, and rye grass similar to the kind that grew near the clan's cave.
Emmer wheat, however, has compensating virtues: it can be gathered more efficiently than barley, and it is unusual among cereals in that its seeds do not adhere to husks.