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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Triticum \Trit"i*cum\, noun [L., perhaps fr. tritus, p. p. of terere to grind.] (Bot.) A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Triticum
noun: annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions [syn: {genus Triticum}]
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