wheat
Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
Example
“They bought a sack of wheat and a sack of rye with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.”
Other meanings
A light brown color, like that of wheat.
“They debated the paint color options for the bathroom walls and settled on wheat.”
A kind of
- cereal
Kinds of wheat
- hard wheat
- soft wheat
- common wheat
- spelt
- starch wheat
- wild wheat
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "hwǣte".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “wheat” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.