OT/OOP - Triticale (was Re: SC - Re:Breakfast at WAR)
kat
kat at kagan.com
Mon Nov 30 19:28:18 PST 1998
Ras writes:
> No. Triticale is not period. It is actually a modern contrivance.
> trit*i*ca*le (noun) [New Latin, blend of Triticum, genus of wheat, and Secale,
> genus of rye] First appeared 1952
> : an amphidiploid hybrid between wheat and rye that has a high yield and
> rich protein content
...and an essential part of the plot of David Gerrold's "The Trouble With Tribbles." Except that to keep up with the [insert technobabble here] standards, they christened it "quadrotriticale." IIRC; YMMV.
- kat (wow! Only 4 digests to go!!!)
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