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the seed that toppled kings, fattened empires, and quietly decided who got to eat
means A small hard seed of a cereal plant like wheat, rice, or corn — or, by extension, any tiny particle (of sand, salt, truth) or the natural lines running through wood or stone.
from From Latin 'granum,' a seed or kernel, which traveled through Old French 'grain' into English. It's a cousin of 'corn' and 'kernel,' both reaching back to the same ancient root meaning 'worn-down grain' — and the same family gives us 'granary,' 'granule,' even 'pomegranate' (the 'seeded apple'). The wood-grain sense came later, from the way grains of seed seem to streak the timber.
- civilization fuel
- Wheat and rice feed half of humanity daily
- wood truth
- Grain reveals every year a tree survived
- ancient currency
- Egyptians paid pyramid workers in beer and grain
- tiny tyrant
- A single rice grain weighs about 25 milligrams
- explosive dust
- Grain elevators can detonate like bombs from airborne flour