Original: Etymology The name '' buckwheat '' or '' beech wheat '' comes from its triangular seeds , which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree , and the fact that it is used like wheat .
Simplified: Buckwheat seeds look like small beech tree seeds . This is how buckwheat got its name - buckwheat is a plant that is used like wheat and whose seeds look like '' buck '' , or beech seeds .