TRITICUM SATIVUM, TRITICUM VULGARE
\tɹˈa͡ɪtɪkəm sˈatɪvəm], \tɹˈaɪtɪkəm sˈatɪvəm], \t_ɹ_ˈaɪ_t_ɪ_k_ə_m s_ˈa_t_ɪ_v_ə_m]\
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Common wheat. Its seeds, ground and sifted, constitute flour. Wheat flour chiefly contains starch, gluten, albumin, sugar, and a gummy substance which differs from ordinary gum in containing nitrogen and in not yielding mucic acid when treated with nitric acid. Flour is sometimes sprinkled on inflamed surfaces. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).