durum wheat

English

Durum wheat

Noun

durum wheat (countable and uncountable, plural durum wheats)

1. Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread.

   Synonyms: durum, hard wheat, macaroni wheat, pasta wheat

   Antonym: soft wheat

Translations

hard variety of wheat

• Catalan: blat dur m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硬質小麥 / 硬质小麦 (yìngzhì xiǎomài)

• Finnish: durumvehnä (fi)
• French: blé dur (fr) m
• German: Hartweizen (de) m
• Hungarian: durumbúza (hu)
• Italian: grano duro m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: durumhvete m

• Portuguese: trigo duro m
• Spanish: trigo duro m
• Swedish: durumvete (sv) n

Further reading

• durum wheat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Triticum turgidum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Triticum turgidum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• durum wheat at USDA Plants database