A hard type of wheat, Triticum durum (most bread wheats are Triticum vulgare); mainly used for the production of semolina to make pasta.
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- Year 7000 bce (in Science & Technology)
- Triticale
- Archer Daniels Midland Company (Public Company)
- pasta (food)
- Common Agricultural Policy
- Macaroni, spaghetti, vermicelli, and noodles (SIC 2098) (industry)
- Fargo: Education and Research (city, North Dakota)
- 1400 (chronology)
- Wheat as a Food
- Flour and other grain mill products (SIC 2041) (industry)
