Wheat bread

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Ellipsis of whole-wheat bread. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, idiomatic, uncountable

    "Near-synonym: brown bread (whole-wheat bread sense)"

  2. 2
    Any bread made from wheat flour, as contrasted with nonwheat flours. countable, uncountable

    "She likes bread, but she can't eat wheat bread because of the gluten. We picked up some gluten-free bread that's made from other grains."

Synonyms

All synonyms
whole wheat

Example

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"Near-synonym: brown bread (whole-wheat bread sense)"

Etymology

From Middle English whete bred, equivalent to wheat + bread. Compare German Weizenbrot, Danish hvedebrød, Swedish vetebröd, Icelandic hveitibrauð.

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