Obs. Also 6–7 typhe, 7 typh. [a. L. tiphē = Gr. τίφη ‘acc. to Sprengel, Peter’s-corn, one-grained wheat, Triticum monococcum, Linn.’] A species of wheat having the ripe ear laterally compressed, the spikelets in two very compact rows, each containing, as a rule, one grain. Also attrib.
1598. Florio, Pane di tritello, rie or typhebread.
1611. Cotgr., Meteil,… typhe wheat, bearded wheat, flat wheat, Roman wheat.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. 56/1. Typh Wheat … is very like to our Rye … and doth make very black Bread.
1790. J. Bruce, Trav. Source Nile, V. 79 (Teff). There is one [cereal] which he [Pliny] calls Tiphe, but says not whence it came; the name would induce us to believe that this was Teff, but we can only venture this as a conjecture not supported.
