| wheat | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. wheat | annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains. |
| ~ cereal, cereal grass | grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet. |
| ~ genus triticum, triticum | annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions. |
| ~ wheat berry | a grain of wheat. |
| ~ durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat, triticum durum, triticum turgidum | wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America. |
| ~ soft wheat | wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals. |
| ~ common wheat, triticum aestivum | widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain. |
| ~ spelt, triticum aestivum spelta, triticum spelta | hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed. |
| ~ emmer, starch wheat, triticum dicoccum, two-grain spelt | hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed. |
| ~ triticum dicoccum dicoccoides, wild emmer, wild wheat | found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat. |
| n. (food) | 2. wheat, wheat berry | grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour. |
| ~ food grain, cereal, grain | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses. |
| ~ bulghur, bulgur, bulgur wheat | parched crushed wheat. |
| ~ cracked wheat | grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces. |
| ~ wheat germ | embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins. |
| ~ common wheat, triticum aestivum | widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. pale yellow, straw, wheat | a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white. |
| ~ yellow, yellowness | yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons. |
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