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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Sack :: Sack (n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels..
Spire :: Spire (n.) A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat..
Garb :: Garb (n.) A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified)..
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..
Rubble :: Rubble (n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc..
Siliginose :: Siliginose (a.) Made of fine wheat.
Grain :: Grain (n.) The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram..
Cornfield :: Cornfield (n.) A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn..
Notwheat :: Notwheat (n.) Wheat not bearded.
Hard Grass :: Hard grass () A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived..
Wheatworm :: Wheatworm (n.) A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm..
Rye :: Rye (n.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man..
Low :: Low (adv.) Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low..
Brank :: Brank (n.) Buckwheat.
Fecula :: Fecula (n.) The nutritious part of wheat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula.
Harvest :: Harvest (n.) That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit..
Mucedin :: Mucedin (n.) A yellowish white, amorphous, nitrogenous substance found in wheat, rye, etc., and resembling gluten; -- formerly called also mucin..
Trug :: Trug (n.) An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.
Sheaf :: Sheaf (v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat..
Triticum :: Triticum (n.) A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat.
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