mummy wheat

Agric .: A variety of wheat said to have been produced from grains found in an Egyptian mummy. It has long been in general cultivation in Egypt and neighboring countries. The spike is compound. ( Chambers .) "The statements relative to mummy-wheat have not been confirmed, and there are many sources of fallacy." Balfour: Manual of Botany (ed. 1863), p. 308. tmum-mỹ, v. t. [MUMMY, 8.] To make into a mummy; to mummify; to embalm. "Recent explorations have brought to light the mummied corpse of King Merenra, and part of the mummy of King Pepi, his father, both of Dynasty VI." Encyc. Brit. (ed. 9th), xvii. 21.