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The food glossary +++ Popular Articles: 'Wheat', 'Wine', 'Water'

Wild is a German word for game (or wild game).

Deutsch: Wasser / Español: Agua / Português: Água / Français: Eau / Italiano: Acqua /

"water" refers to the clear, odorless, and tasteless liquid that is essential to life and used in a variety of culinary applications.

Deutsch: Wassermelone / Indian: Thanimathan
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.), family Cucurbitaceae) is a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from southern Africa. Its fruit, which is also called watermelon, is a special kind referred to by botanists as a pepo, a berry which has a thick rind (exocarp) and fleshy center (mesocarp and endocarp). Pepos are derived from an inferior ovary, and are characteristic of the Cucurbitaceae. The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type of melon - although not in the genus Cucumis - has a smooth exterior rind (usually green with dark green stripes or yellow spots) and a juicy, sweet interior flesh (usually deep red to pink, but sometimes orange, yellow, or white).

Deutsch: Weizen
Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East and Ethiopian Highlands, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2010, world production of wheat was 651 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize (844 million tons) and rice (672 million tons).

Deutsch: Wein
Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grape juice. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol, carbon dioxide, and heat. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts produce different styles of wine.

Windfalls is an to an old/historic term for "Hard pears" .

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