Definition of Triticum

1. Noun. Annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions.


Definition of Triticum

1. n. A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat.

Definition of Triticum

1. a cereal grass [n -S]

Medical Definition of Triticum

1. A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat. Origin: L, perhaps fr. Tritus, p. P. Of terere to grind. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triticum

trithiophosphates
trithorax
tritiate
tritiated
tritiated thymidine
tritiated water
tritiates
tritical
triticale
triticales
triticeal cartilage
triticeoglossus
triticeous
triticeum
triticin
triticum (current term)
triticums
tritide
tritides
tritium
tritium-breeding ratio
tritium inventory
tritium oxide
tritiums
trito-
tritocaline
tritocerebra
tritocerebral
tritocerebrum
tritolyl phosphates

Literary usage of Triticum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1859)
"triticum and Far. No one entertains any doubt that triticum ... Among many different kinds of triticum he deems the following only deserting of particular ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1854)
"He has also obtained two new hybrid plants,— one by the fecundation of JE. ovata by triticum spelta, the other by the action of the pollen of triticum durum ..."

3. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, F. Lamson-Scribner (1904)
"(Hackel.) Flo. 231-b b— 1, Common Bearded Winter Wheat. triticum sativum vulgare; 2, triticum sativum ..."

4. Genetic Manipulation in Crops: Proceedings of the International Symposium on by International Rice Research Institute (1988)
"Induction of Pollen Plants of Intergeneric Hybrids of triticum aestivum x ... China An intermediate type of hybrid triticum-Agropyron (referred to as ..."

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