[mass noun]an old kind of wheat with small bearded ears and spikelets that each contain one slender grain, used as fodder in prehistoric times but now rarely grown 单粒小麦,一粒小麦(原始小麦种类,史前曾被用作饲料,现在罕有种植)。 比较 emmer, spelt
Triticum monococcum, family Gramineae 拉丁名Triticum monococcum,禾本科
语源
early 20th cent.: from German, from ein 'one' + Korn 'seed'