Definition of wheat

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Wheat (n.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race..

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Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat..
Sheaf :: Sheaf (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat..
Rubble :: Rubble (n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc..
Aristate :: Aristate (a.) Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned..
Merchantable :: Merchantable (a.) Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class..
Notwheat :: Notwheat (n.) Wheat not bearded.
Fastigiated :: Fastigiated (a.) United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat..
Header :: Header (n.) A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only..
Macaroni :: Macaroni (n.) Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste..
Polygonaceous :: Polygonaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous plants (Polygonaceae), of which the knotweeds (species of Polygonum) are the type, and which includes also the docks (Rumex), the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape (Coccoloba), and several other genera..
Ventilate :: Ventilate (v. t.) To winnow; to fan; as, to ventilate wheat..
Whites :: Whites (n. pl.) The finest flour made from white wheat.
Purple :: Purple (n.) A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.
Badgering :: Badgering (n.) The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
Spire :: Spire (n.) A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat..
Straw :: Straw (n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease..
Grit :: Grit (n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats..
Lychnis :: Lychnis (n.) A genus of Old World plants belonging to the Pink family (Caryophyllaceae). Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered as wicks for lamps. The botanical name is in common use for the garden species. The corn cockle (Lychnis Githago) is a common weed in wheat fields..
Amelcorn :: Amelcorn (n.) A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.
Arrish :: Arrish (n.) The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish.
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