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  1. High nutritive value grain plant Fagopyrum
  2. esculentum, of the family Polygonaceae. The
  3. plant grows to about 1 m/3 ft, and the seeds
  4. are either eaten whole or ground into flour.
  5. It is eaten both by humans and animals.
  6. Buckwheat can grow on poor soil in a short
  7. summer.
  8.