| NOUN | plant | wheat | annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains |
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| food | wheat, wheat berry | grains of common wheat | |
| attribute | wheat, pale yellow, straw | a variable yellow tint |
| Sounds | hhwiy't; wiy't | |
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| Rhymes | aesthete ... worksheet: 76 rhymes with iyt... | |
| Meaning | annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains. | |
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| Member of | Triticum, genus Triticum | annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area |
| Parts | wheat berry | A grain of wheat |
| Narrower | common wheat, Triticum aestivum | Widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain |
| durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum, macaroni wheat | wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta | |
| emmer, starch wheat, two-grain spelt, Triticum dicoccum | Hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany | |
| soft wheat | wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals | |
| spelt, Triticum spelta, Triticum aestivum spelta | Hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed | |
| wild wheat, wild emmer, Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides | Found wild in Palestine | |
| Broader | cereal, cereal grass | grass whose starchy grains are used as food |
| Spanish | trigo | |
| Catalan | blat | |
| Meaning | grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour. | |
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| Synonym | wheat berry | |
| Part of | common wheat, Triticum aestivum | Widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain |
| Parts | wheat germ | embryo of the wheat kernel |
| Narrower | bulgur, bulghur, bulgur wheat | parched crushed wheat |
| cracked wheat | Grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces | |
| Broader | grain, food grain, cereal | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
| Spanish | trigo, triticum | |
| Catalan | blat | |
| Adjectives | wheaten, whole-wheat, wholemeal | of or relating to or derived from wheat |
| Meaning | A variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white. | |
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| Synonyms | pale yellow, straw | |
| Broader | yellow, yellowness | Yellow color or pigment |
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