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einkorn

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ein·korn  (nkôrn)
n.
A one-seeded wheat (Triticum monococcum) grown in arid regions. Native to southwest Asia, it is one of the first crops to be domesticated by Neolithic peoples.

[German, from Middle High German, from Old High German : ein, one; see oi-no- in Indo-European roots + korn, grain; see g-no- in Indo-European roots.]

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These crops consisted of three domesticated cereals--emmer, einkorn, and hulled barley--together with flax and four bean varieties--lentil, pea, bitter vetch, and chickpea.
Inhabitants of areas to the north raised other wild cereals, such as einkorn and emmer wheat, instead of barley, Bar-Yosef says.
Sifting through and winnowing DNA fragments from wild and cultivated einkorn, a group of European researchers has traced the first sprouts of cultivate einkorn to a stretch of mountains in southeastern Turkey.
 
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