macaroni wheat
- noun
- UK
:
trigo para macarrones
- The best pasta is often made from macaroni wheat due to its high gluten content.
Examples
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The bakery uses macaroni wheat to produce their specialty breads.
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Farmers in North Dakota commonly grow macaroni wheat for both local use and export.
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I bought some macaroni wheat for dinner.
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The macaroni wheat is perfect for making pasta.
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Farmers in North Dakota commonly grow macaroni wheat for both local use and export.
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The best pasta is often made from macaroni wheat due to its high gluten content.
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The bakery uses macaroni wheat to produce their specialty breads.
Synonyms
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6.7
A hard kind of wheat with dark grains used to make pasta and bread
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3.9
A hard type of wheat with dark grains used to make pasta and some breads
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3.7
A grain with hard, dark seeds used to make bread and pasta
A hard wheat with high gluten used to make pasta and some bread
A type of wheat with hard dark grains high in gluten used for pasta and bread
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'macaroni wheat' directly links 'macaroni' (pasta) with 'wheat' (grain), so it denotes a type of wheat used for making macaroni/pasta. This noun–noun compositional pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
The name macaroni wheat comes from a simple food picture: this hard, dark grain was used to make 'pasta' like macaroni, so people called the grain macaroni wheat. That's why the name now means a hard, high-gluten wheat used for making pasta and bread.