wheat germ
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- noun
- /wiːt dʒɜrm/
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germen de trigo
- For a healthier smoothie, add a tablespoon of wheat germ for extra vitamins.
So each of the chapters has a, some solid, you know, wheat germ pabulum, but it's covered with some little layer of chocolate.
- So each of the chapters has a, some solid, you know, wheat germ pabulum, but it's covered with some little layer of chocolate.
- So my my hack has been take things like wheat germ and so on that stimulate just before I go on a plane, take that and a couple of other things.
Examples
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Hey, Farns, don't forget to take your wheat germ.
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They got wheat germ bagels.
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I needed to use up the rest of the wheat germ anyway.
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Maxwell gave him a bottle of wheat germ oil once.
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Add fiber in the form of flax seeds, chia seeds, rolled oats, or wheat germ.
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He decided to sprinkle some wheat germ on his yogurt for added nutrition.
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Many health enthusiasts incorporate wheat germ into their breakfast cereals for extra minerals.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase literally denotes the 'germ' (embryo) of the wheat grain, so its meaning is directly derivable from combining 'wheat' (the cereal) and 'germ' (embryo/seed part). This straightforward noun–noun composition is cross-linguistically common and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Wheat germ comes from the tiny part inside a grain of wheat that can grow into a new plant. Millers often removed this germ when they made white flour, and people began to eat the removed part because it is very 'nutritious', so today wheat germ means that small, vitamin-rich part used in food.