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cracked wheat

cracked wheat

2.2
Wheat grains crushed into small pieces used in cooking
  • noun
translation icon : trigo partido
  • She made a delicious salad using cracked wheat, vegetables, and feta cheese.
  • cracked wheat (bulgur)

Examples

  • So people started making wheat cereal, cracked wheat, and other wheat dishes.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Add cracked wheat to your soup for added texture and nutrition.

  • For a hearty breakfast, consider cooking cracked wheat and adding fruits and nuts.

How Coarse

bulgur
3 5.8
cracked wheat
2.2
semolina
1 4.7
wheat flour
4 1.0

Surface Forms

cracked wheat singular
cracked wheats plural

Morphology

cracked + wheat

The meaning is directly derivable from the parts: 'cracked' (broken/crushed into pieces) combined with 'wheat' (the grain) yields wheat grains that have been crushed. This is a transparent, compositional food-term pattern found across languages and should be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.

Etymology

The noun cracked wheat comes from the literal idea of whole wheat grains that are cracked or broken into small pieces. Because the grains are broken they cook faster and give a chewy, nutty feel, so today cracked wheat means wheat made into 'small pieces' for cooking.