A plant with grain-like seeds that grows in pastoral areas and is used as forage or feed for cattle.
Compound of 'cow' and 'wheat' (Old English 'hwæte'). The term identifies plants that resemble wheat but are cultivated or found in cattle pastures as food sources.
The development of specific forage crops like cowwheat shows how farmers selectively bred plants not for human consumption but for livestock nutrition—an early form of agricultural biotechnology.
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