Spelt
WordNet
noun
(1) Hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
WiktionaryText
Quotations
- 1590, , Love's Labour's Lost, v 1
- Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a, b, spelt / backward with the horn on his head?
Etymology 2
Unknown, but Old English , and Late Latin .
Noun
- A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta.
Etymology 3
From , or .