wheat
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- noun
- /wiːt/
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- The chef decided to use whole grain wheat flour for her special bread recipe.
- wheat flour
- wheat bread
- grain of wheat
That made a pact where America traded wheat for Jews.
- That made a pact where America traded wheat for Jews.
- It's how you reap wheat with a horse drawn it.
- Two days later, most of the wheat farms in Iraq burned.
- You know, Brooklyn was like a giant wheat field at one point.
- The most common being wheat, rice, oats, corn, and teff.
- When we saw Russia invade Ukraine, wheat basically doubled.
- So that is the grains of wheat that flour comes from.
- So let's say for the choice of bread, you can choose wheat or rye.
- Get rid of all the grains, wheat, rice, oats, corn.
- You know, you take real wheat and wheat there, it's very fibrous.
Examples
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About half of the hard red spring wheat grown in the United States is exported.
Academic text (1999) -
To the south lies the Palouse, the planet's most productive wheat- and lentil-growing region.
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This is the the price of wheat in each of these years.
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Then to send measures of wheat to Rome.
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Why should Egypt produce wheat with a climate like that?
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No more dairy, no more wheat, no more sugar.
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The explosion in wheat production could not have taken place, however, without government support.
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About 60 percent of the variations in wheat quality are caused by environmental influences.
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Over the past few years, several new wheat silo projects have been initiated.
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When we saw Russia invade Ukraine, wheat basically doubled.
Synonyms
A common type of wheat grown for grain used to make bread and pasta
A grain plant that people grow widely for flour used in bread and pasta
Idioms
- Informal
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To pick out useful people or things from those that are not
Compounds
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A type of bread made from the whole wheat grain that is denser and healthier than white bread
- Specialized
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A green grass grown for health drinks, animal food, and to stop soil erosion
- Specialized
A grass from Eurasia that farmers grow for animal feed and to stop soil erosion
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A grass from Europe and Asia grown on dry plains to feed animals and stop soil washing away
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Plant disease that attacks wheat leaves and stems, causing dark streaks and lower crop yields
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A disease caused by a fungus that makes reddish or brown spots on wheat leaves and stems and reduces harvest
A plant that grows naturally without farming and is the ancestor of wheat grown on farms
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Etymology
Wheat comes from an old word that meant 'white', and it is the same root as the modern word white because ripe grain looked pale, so the name now refers to the cereal plant we use for flour and bread.