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bul·gur

also bul·ghur  (bo͝ol-go͝or′, bŭl′gər)
n.
Cracked wheat grains, often used in Middle Eastern dishes. Also called bulgur wheat.

[Turkish bulgur, from Ottoman Turkish burġul, bulġur.]
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bulgur

(ˈbʌlɡə) or

bulgur wheat

n
(Cookery) a kind of dried cracked wheat. Also called: burghul
[C20: from Turkish, from Arabic burghul, from Persian]
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bul•gur

(ˈbʌl gər, ˈbʊl-)

n.
a form of wheat that has been parboiled, cracked, and dried.
[1925–30; < Turkish < Persian barghōl]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.bulgur - parched crushed wheat
wheat, wheat berry - grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
tabbouleh, tabooli - a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat
Republic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
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