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NOUN:
  1. A hardy hybrid of wheat and rye having a high yield.
  2. The grains of this hybrid.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin trticum, wheat (from trtus, past participle of terere, to rub, thresh; see trite) + scale, rye


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