Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hardy hybrid of wheat and rye having a high yield.
- noun The grains of this hybrid.
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- noun uncountable a
grain crop , ahybrid ofwheat andrye , that gives a highyield - noun countable any particular variety of triticale
Etymologies
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Examples
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Over the last five years, the triticale has been the highest or second highest yielder out of the 50 wheat varieties tested.
3 Triticale Today 1989
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Farm manager Dudley McHenry explains that the animals eat a mixture of corn silage, clover, alfalfa, corn, soybeans and a grass called triticale.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Farm manager Dudley McHenry explains that the animals eat a mixture of corn silage, clover, alfalfa, corn, soybeans and a grass called triticale.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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A gluten-free diet excludes all forms of wheat (including wheat germ, wheat bran, enriched flour, farina and semolina), barley, rye and a grain called triticale (a cross between wheat and rye).
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Borlaug's dwarf wheat crop, known as triticale, was responsible for a mutli-fold yield increase.
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'Gluten is a protein found in all forms of wheat (including durum, semolina, and spelt), rye, oats, barley and related grain hybrids such as triticale and kamut.
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The use of alternative plant materials such as triticale, oca, amaranth, and achira, which have been successfully grown in some developing countries, should be examined as substrates for fermentations.
Chapter 4 1992
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Star Trek fans will recognize the name "triticale" from an episode featuring
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And mixtures of winter bird cover, such as triticale, winter vetch and fodder radish work well if sowed around the edge of fields, he added.
FWi - All News 2009
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And mixtures of winter bird cover, such as triticale, winter vetch and fodder radish work well if sowed around the edge of fields, he added.
FWi - All News 2009
chained_bear commented on the word triticale
A hybrid cereal grass, of the genus × Triticosecale, produced by crossing various species or varieties of wheat and rye.
I don't know exactly what it looks like, but it's in this oatmeal mixture I eat that tastes pretty darn good, and it's a cool word.
February 1, 2007