triticum

/ ˈtrɪtɪkəm /

noun

1. any annual cereal grass of the genus Triticum , which includes the wheats

Word History and Origins

Origin of triticum¹

C19: Latin, literally: wheat, probably from tritum , supine of terere to grind

Example Sentences

Dried pasta is made by adding H2O to ground durum, a subspecies of Triticum turgidum; that is, by shaping and drying a mixture of water and semolina flour milled from durum wheat.

From National Geographic

Triticum, or durum, wheat needed to make a sturdy dry pasta is Middle Eastern in origin, so it is likely that Arabs and others in the Middle East were producing and eating the earliest modern forms of dry pasta – as little balls like acini de pepe and couscous – before they became common in Italy.

From Salon

Working with Marco Riggi — a purveyor of some ancient strains of triticum wheat in Caltanissetta, Sicily — the restaurant is importing stone-ground organic timilia flour, also known as tumminia, for focaccia.

From New York Times

Akhunov, E. D., Akhunova, A. R. & Dvorák, J. BAC libraries of Triticum urartu, Aegilops speltoides and Ae. tauschii, the diploid ancestors of polyploid wheat.

From Nature

Draft genome of the wheat A-genome progenitor Triticum urartu.

From Nature