WILD WHEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild wheat mean? 

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

1. found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD WHEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides; wild emmer; wild wheat

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

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