wheaty
3.9
A mild taste or smell like fresh wheat bread
- adjective
- /ˈwiːti/
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sabor a trigo
- I bit into this salmon, draped across the wheaty bread, and looked back across the table, which was constantly being re-stocked: before I knew it, I had finished chewing, and I had eaten the whole thing without even paying attention.
Examples
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The bread has a deliciously wheaty flavor that enhances every bite.
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We enjoyed a wheaty aroma when we opened the bag of fresh flour.
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Her homemade cookies had a pleasant wheaty taste, reminding me of the countryside.
Synonyms
wheaten
vswheaty
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3.2
Contains wheat, like bread or flour
emphasizes taste or smell traits rather than material origin
How Wheaty
Surface Forms
wheaty positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word wheaty comes from wheat plus the ending -y, where wheat is the grain used for bread and -y means 'like' or 'having'. So wheaty describes a taste or smell that is 'like wheat', for example the warm bread smell in a bakery.