botanically a fruit with its wall fused to the single seed inside) stays fully encapsulated by its husk.

Confusion with other wheats

Especially in the context of descriptions of ancient cultures, the English word spelt has sometimes been used for grains that were not T. spelta, but other species of hulled wheat such as T. dicoccum (emmer) or T. monococcum (einkorn, also known as "little spelt", in French petit épeautre). This confusion may arise either

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