buckwheat
意味
- ソバ(一年生の植物);ソバの実(家畜の飼料にしたり,《米》ではパンケーキの材料などに用いる)
例文
A few days ago, buckwheat cost 18 rubles, but now it costs 21.
数日前までは、そば粉は18ルーブルだったのに、今じゃぁ21ルーブルもするんだ。
There is a custom of eating buckwheat noodles on New Year's Eve in Japan.
日本では大晦日に蕎麦を食べる習慣があります。
Soba is made of buckwheat flour, and udon and kishimen are made of plain wheat flour.
そばはそば粉から、うどんやきしめんは普通の小麦粉からできてるの。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Ultimately from Middle Low German bōkwête (“beech-wheat”) (so called because of its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree, and the fact that it is used like wheat), probably via Middle Dutch boecweit, boecweite. Compare German Buchweizen. Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat, as it is not a grass.