What does durum mean?
Durum means (often used attributively) Ellipsis of durum wheat..
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/ˈdjuːɹəm/ · noun
(often used attributively) Ellipsis of durum wheat..
durum pasta
durum bread
2003 October, Commission staff, Durum and Hard Red Spring Wheat From Canada, U.S. International Trade Commission, Publication 3639, page V-5, The Minneapolis Grain Exchange stated that durum is a small volume commodity with very specific uses. The durum futures contract traded sporadically for several years, and the Exchange declared the durum futures market dormant after there were no trades and no open interest in any futures contracts.
2012, Ruby Parker Puckett, Foodservice Manual for Health Care Institutions, Wiley (Jossey-Bass), 4th Edition, page 397, Water is added to a mixture of durum meal or flour, semolina, and farina to make dough that is forced through dies to make tubular macaroni products and cord-like spaghetti.
Much has been done in crossing Triticum durum Desf. and T. vulgare Vill.² in an attempt to produce common wheats that are as resistant to stem rust as are the durums.
Use durum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Durum means (often used attributively) Ellipsis of durum wheat..
Common synonyms include durum wheat, hard wheat, maccaroni wheat, triticum durum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
durum pasta
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