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durum
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun durum has 1 sense
- durum(n = noun.plant) durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat, triticum durum, triticum turgidum - wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America; Array is a kind of wheat
OXFORD DICTIONARY
durum, n. a kind of wheat, Triticum turgidum, having hard seeds and yielding a flour used in the manufacture of spaghetti etc.
Etymology
L, neut. of durus hard
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