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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun wheat has 3 senses

wheat(n = noun.plant) - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains;

is a kind of

cereal

cereal grass

is a member of genus triticum, triticum

has parts: wheat berry

has particulars: durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat, triticum durum, triticum turgidum, soft wheat, common wheat, triticum aestivum, spelt, triticum aestivum spelta, triticum spelta, emmer, starch wheat, triticum dicoccum, two-grain spelt, triticum dicoccum dicoccoides, wild emmer, wild wheat

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

is a kind of cereal, food grain, grain

has particulars: bulghur, bulgur, bulgur wheat, cracked wheat

has parts: wheat germ

is a part of common wheat, triticum aestivum

wheat(n = noun.attribute) pale yellow, straw - a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white;

is a kind of yellow, yellowness

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CIDE DICTIONARY

wheat, n. [OE. whete, AS. hw; akin to OS. hw, D. weit, G. weizen, OHG. weizzi, Icel. hveiti, Sw. hvete, Dan. hvede, Goth. hwaiteis, and E. white. See White.].

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. [1913 Webster]
" Of this grain the varieties are numerous, as red wheat, white wheat, bald wheat, bearded wheat, winter wheat, summer wheat, and the like. Wheat is not known to exist as a wild native plant, and all statements as to its origin are either incorrect or at best only guesses." [1913 Webster]

Buck wheat. (Bot.) See Buckwheat. -- German wheat. (Bot.) See 2d Spelt. -- Guinea wheat (Bot.), a name for Indian corn. -- Indian wheat, or Tartary wheat (Bot.), a grain (Fagopyrum Tartaricum) much like buckwheat, but only half as large. -- Turkey wheat (Bot.), a name for Indian corn. -- Wheat aphid, or Wheat aphis (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Aphis and allied genera, which suck the sap of growing wheat. -- Wheat beetle. (Zoöl.) (a) A small, slender, rusty brown beetle (Sylvanus Surinamensis) whose larvæ feed upon wheat, rice, and other grains. (b) A very small, reddish brown, oval beetle (Anobium paniceum) whose larvæ eat the interior of grains of wheat. -- Wheat duck (Zoöl.), the American widgeon. [Western U. S.] -- Wheat fly. (Zoöl.) Same as Wheat midge, below. -- Wheat grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Agropyrum caninum) somewhat resembling wheat. It grows in the northern parts of Europe and America. -- Wheat jointworm. (Zoöl.) See Jointworm. -- Wheat louse (Zoöl.), any wheat aphid. -- Wheat maggot (Zoöl.), the larva of a wheat midge. -- Wheat midge. (Zoöl.) (a) A small two-winged fly (Diplosis tritici) which is very destructive to growing wheat, both in Europe and America. The female lays her eggs in the flowers of wheat, and the larvæ suck the juice of the young kernels and when full grown change to pupæ in the earth. (b) The Hessian fly. See under Hessian. -- Wheat moth (Zoöl.), any moth whose larvæ devour the grains of wheat, chiefly after it is harvested; a grain moth. See Angoumois Moth, also Grain moth, under Grain. -- Wheat thief (Bot.), gromwell; -- so called because it is a troublesome weed in wheat fields. See Gromwell. -- Wheat thrips (Zoöl.), a small brown thrips (Thrips cerealium) which is very injurious to the grains of growing wheat. -- Wheat weevil. (Zoöl.) (a) The grain weevil. (b) The rice weevil when found in wheat.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

wheat, n.
1 any cereal plant of the genus Triticum, bearing dense four-sided seed-spikes.
2 its grain, used in making flour etc.

Idiom

separate the wheat from the chaff see CHAFF. wheat-belt a region where wheat is the chief agricultural product. wheat germ the embryo of the wheat grain, extracted as a source of vitamins. wheat-grass = couch grass (see COUCH(2)).

Etymology

OE hw{aelig}te f. Gmc, rel. to WHITE

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DEVIL DICTIONARY

wheat
n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can with some difficulty be made, and which is used also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread _per capita_ of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

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THESAURUS

wheat
Bengal grass, English rye grass, Italian rye grass, Kentucky bluegrass, alfilaria, bamboo, barley, beach grass, beard grass, bent, bent grass, bird seed, black bent, bluegrass, bog grass, bran, buckwheat, buffalo grass, bulrush, bunch grass, canary grass, cane, cat food, chicken feed, chop, corn, cotton grass, crab grass, dog food, eatage, ensilage, feather grass, feed, flyaway grass, fodder, forage, four-leaved grass, grain, grasses, hassock grass, hay, horsetail, little quaking grass, lovegrass, maize, mash, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, meadow grass, meal, millet, myrtle grass, oats, paddy, palm-leaved grass, pampas grass, papyrus, pasturage, pasture, peppergrass, pet food, provender, reed, ribbon grass, rice, rush, rye, scratch, scratch feed, scutch, sedge, sesame, sesame grass, silage, slops, sorghum, straw, striped grass, sugar cane, swill, switch grass, sword grass, tufted hair grass, wild oats, wire grass, woolly beard grass, worm grass, zebra grass, zoysia

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