Wheat
adj, name, noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery. countable
"They bought a sack of wheat and a sack of rye with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking."
- 2 a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white wordnet
- 3 A light brown color, like that of wheat. uncountable
"They debated the paint color options for the bathroom walls and settled on wheat."
- 4 grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour wordnet
- 5 Ellipsis of wheat bread abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
"Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye?"
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- 6 annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains wordnet
- 1 Wheaten, of a light brown color, like that of wheat. not-comparable
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A former community in Roane County, Tennessee, United States, now in the city of Oak Ridge. countable, uncountable
- 3 An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"Can you tell wheat from barley?"
Etymology
From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white.
English surname, probably from the noun wheat. Another sense meaning "bold, active, brave" is derived from Old English hwettan (“to encourage, embolden, sharpen”).