Also 6 amilcorne. [a. Ger. or Du. amelkorn, f. L. amyl-um starch + CORN.] An inferior variety of Wheat, the Larger Spelt (Triticum vulgare dicoccum), called also French Rice.

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1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, 456. This corne is called in high Douch Ammelkorne … in base Almaigne, Amelcorne, and in Latin Amyleum frumentum … it may be englished Amelcorne, or bearded wheate.

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1611.  Cotgr., Scourgeon, Amell-corn, or Starch-corn; a wild or degenerate Wheat.

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1627.  Speed, Eng. Abridg., xi. § 4. The fields bring forth a kinde of Rie or Amell-corne.

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1762.  trans. Duhamel’s Husb., IV. v. 474. Amel, or, starch-corn was cut on the 28th.

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1879.  Syd. Soc. Lex., Amel corn, French rice, from which starch is made.

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