[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- Any of several types or varieties of awned wheat having a high starch content, especially the primitive wheat emmer, Triticum turgidum dicoccum. Compare bearded wheat, starch corn.


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Origin:
late 16th century; earliest use found in Henry Lyte (1529–1607), botanist and antiquary. Either (i) from German (now rare) Ammelkorn