Kamut
[ kah-moot ]
/ kɑˈmut /
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Trademark.
a brand name for Khorasan wheat, a type of ancient grain.
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Origin of Kamut
First recorded in 1990–95; supposedly from Egyptian kamʾḥut “bread made from fine wheat”
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