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Spelt

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Noun

1. spelt, triticum aestivum spelta, triticum spelta

hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spelt

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verb
a past tense and past participle of spell1
noun
a species of wheat, Triticum spelta, that was formerly much cultivated and was used to develop present-day cultivated wheats

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Spelt

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verb transitive, verb intransitive
alt. pt. & pp. of
spell2
noun
a primitive species (Triticum spelta) of wheat with grains that do not thresh free of the chaff: now seldom cultivated

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Spelt

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n.
A type of wheat (Triticum spelta syn. T. aestivum subsp. spelta) having a tough hull. It was widely cultivated in southwest Asia, the Near East, and Europe during the Bronze Age and is now grown chiefly in Europe.
v.
A past tense and a past participle of spell1.

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