WHEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wheat mean? 

• WHEAT (noun)
  The noun WHEAT has 3 senses:

1. annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

2. grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour

3. a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

  Familiarity information: WHEAT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

Meronyms (parts of "wheat"):

wheat berry (a grain of wheat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind 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)

Holonyms ("wheat" is a member of...):

genus Triticum; Triticum (annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

wheat; wheat berry

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

cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)

Meronyms (parts of "wheat"):

wheat germ (embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wheat"):

bulghur; bulgur; bulgur wheat (parched crushed wheat)

cracked wheat (grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces)

Holonyms ("wheat" is a part of...):

common wheat; Triticum aestivum (widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

pale yellow; straw; wheat

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

yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)

 Context examples 

Compared to the capsule form, the powder contains a mixture of wheat flour, fats, and sugar that may contribute to the enhanced bioavailability of fenretinide.

(Fenretinide Lipid Matrix, NCI Thesaurus)

Fermented wheat germ extract (FWGE) inhibits the activities of several enzymes involved in de novo nucleic acid synthesis and in supplying the dNTP pool required for DNA replication.

(Fermented Wheat Germ Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

While wheat and rice received research, extension and market support, on the supply side there was a marked shift away from coarse grains, which it says had negative consequences for dietary micronutrients.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)

Puppies are often born dark, but the adult comes in many combinations of black, black and tan, reddish, red grizzle, wheat, liver and blue, grizzle, and grizzle and tan.

(Lakeland Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

Soy bean and wheat were less at risk, with climate variability accounting for seven per cent and six per cent of year-to-year changes in yields respectively.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)

That about the price of wheat per bushel, I modestly felt was too much for my strength, and quite settled the question.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I hope there will be more wheat and fewer tares every year," said Amy softly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Problem foods for children can include eggs, milk, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, and wheat.

(Food Allergy, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

A substance found in many foods that come from plants, including corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans, and in large amounts in cereals and legumes.

(Inositol hexaphosphate, NCI Dictionary)

Wheat and rice are the staple food of the Chinese people, and 60 percent of them depend on rice.

(Saltwater Rice Successfully Harvested by Chinese Scientists, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)