buckwheatlike

English

Etymology

buckwheat +‎ -like

Adjective

buckwheatlike (comparative more buckwheatlike, superlative most buckwheatlike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of buckwheat.
   • 1931, William Adams Dayton, Important Western Browse Plants, page 27:

     The rather small, compounded cymes of usually pinkish flowers appear from June to October, the buckwheatlike fruits maturing and disseminating from September to November.

   • 2001, Paul E. Minnis, Wayne J. Elisens, Biodiversity and Native America, page 230:

     Erect knotweed (Polygonum erectum) has a buckwheatlike grain that seems to have undergone selection for size and for reduction of the numbers of thick-walled fruits produced on the same plants as fruits with thin pericarps […]