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A corruption of boc. German, buche, beech-wheat; it is so called because it is triangular, like beechmast. The botanical name is Fagopyrum (beech-wheat).
“The buckwheat
Whitened broad acres, sweetening with its flowers
The August wind.”
Bryant: The Fountain, stanza 7.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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