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A plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) of the Polygonum family, the seed of which is used for food.

Buckwheat. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.

The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.

esignating an acid found in, and characteristic of, oxalis, and also certain plant of the Buckwheat family. Oxalic acid (Chem.), a dibasic acid, existing combined in oxalis as an acid potassium oxalate, and in many plant tissues as the calcium oxalate. It is prepared on a large scale, by the action of fused caustic sod…

weeds (species of Polygonum) are the type, and which includes also the docks (Rumex), the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape (Coccoloba), and several other genera.

ain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.

The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. "After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble." Mortimer. Stubble goose (Zoöl.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in…