COMMON WHEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common wheat mean? 

• COMMON WHEAT (noun)
  The noun COMMON WHEAT has 1 sense:

1. widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain

  Familiarity information: COMMON WHEAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON WHEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common wheat; Triticum aestivum

Hypernyms ("common wheat" is a kind of...):

wheat (annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains)

Meronyms (parts of "common wheat"):

wheat; wheat berry (grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour)