Wheat

[wiːt] or [wit]

Definition

(noun.) grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour.

(noun.) annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains.

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Definition

(n.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.

Checker: Lowell

Definition

n. the most valuable of all the cereal grasses the grain furnishing a white flour for bread—known as bearded beardless or bald according to the presence or the absence of the awns or beard; as white red or amber according to colour; and as spring summer autumn or winter according to the time of sowing.—ns. Wheat′-bird the chaffinch; Wheat′-ear an ear of wheat; Wheat′-eel a disease in wheat—also Ear-cockle.—adj. Wheat′en made of wheat.—ns. Wheat′-field a field of wheat; Wheat′-fly name of several flies which destroy wheat—e.g. the Hessian fly; Wheat′-midge a dipterous insect which lays its eggs in the flowers of wheat-heads and whose reddish larv?devour the kernels; Wheat′-mil′dew the rust which gathers on wheat and oats; Wheat′-moth one of several small moths whose larv?devour stored wheat.—Wheat-ear stitch a fancy stitch in embroidery.

Checker: Zachariah