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Buckwheat is a small, dark, three-sided seed used as food. Farmers give it to chickens, and people grind it into flour for , , and porridge. The name is a trap: it is not wheat, and it is not even a grass. It is another plant that we cook in wheat-like ways. The seeds look a little like tiny nuts from a beech tree, and that is why the old German name meant “beech-wheat.” In Taiwan you already know it as the grain in 蕎麥麵. Some people choose it because it has no wheat gluten — though actually, the kitchen still has to be careful if real wheat flour is used nearby.
蕎麥（不是小麥；蕎麥麵的原料）
組成Ultimately from Middle Low German bōkwête (“beech-wheat”), probably through Middle Dutch, because the little seeds look like beech nuts and the plant is used like wheat. German Buchweizen is the same name. Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat as a plant.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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derogatoryBarack Obama.
- How will "Buckwheat" Obama handle the ever increasing nuke threat from Iran?
- You know as well as I do that OIF will end sweetly, nicely, AND WAAY BEFORE 2012. Unlike Hitlary (always ducking sniper fire) and Buckwheat (doesn't know when to duck or how to fire), McAmnesty will leave a bloody trail of blasted ass from the Mall to Langley!
buckwheatnoun/ˈbʌkʍiːt/
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An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.
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cookingfoodlifestyleThe fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
- I'll need a few things. I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana. I'll need some buckwheat flapjack mix.
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Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus Eriogonum.
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slangA slow and painful murder by the Mafia as a warning to others.
- Mafia mythology has many believe that the method used to eliminate a person is often a reflection of the respect for that individual. In this case, the Profaci gunman must have witnessed a "buckwheat's" execution, where an example is being made of the victim by inflicting pain for a prolonged period.
- Mob murders are seldom buckwheats, being instead simple business matters. An exception is made, however, for murders of example, such as in the case of informers, or mobsters who hold out on gang revenues […]
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offensivederogatoryslurslangThe curly hair of a black person.
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slangPubic hair.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。