Wheat Definition
wēt, hwēt
noun
Any of several cereal grasses (genus Triticum) having dense, erect spikes containing grains which thresh free of the chaff; esp., bread wheat (T. aestivum), a cultigen with large, nutritious grains.
Webster's New World
The grain of any of these grasses, esp. bread wheat (used in making flour, breakfast cereals, pastries, cakes, etc.) and durum (used in making macaroni, noodles, etc.): next to rice, the most widely used grain.
Webster's New World
Whole-wheat bread.
Webster's New World
(uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- wheat berry
- pale yellow
- straw
- gluten
- associated word: mattamore. grain
- semolina
- grass
- spelt
- grain
- durum
- cereal
- breadstuff
- staff-of-life
- corn
- wheat-flour
Other Word Forms of Wheat
Noun
Singular:
wheat
Plural:
wheatsOrigin of Wheat
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From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz 'white'. More at white. For semantic development, compare Welsh gwenith 'wheat', from gwenn 'white'.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English whete from Old English hwǣte kweit- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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