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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Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw..
Sow :: Sow (v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate..
Header :: Header (n.) A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only..
Summerhouses :: Summer-fallow (v. t.) To plow and work in summer, in order to prepare for wheat or other crop; to plow and let lie fallow..
Preparation :: Preparation (n.) The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign..
Groats :: Groats (n. pl.) Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits..
Haulm :: Haulm (n.) The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw..
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..
Brank :: Brank (n.) Buckwheat.
Siliginose :: Siliginose (a.) Made of fine wheat.
Wheatstone''s Bridge :: Wheatstone's bridge () See under Bridge.
Notwheat :: Notwheat (n.) Wheat not bearded.
Boll :: Boll (n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels..
Garb :: Garb (n.) A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified)..
Arrish :: Arrish (n.) The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish.
Mattamore :: Mattamore (n.) A subterranean repository for wheat.
Frumentaceous :: Frumentaceous (a.) Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain..
Cake :: Cake (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
Pointing :: Pointing (n.) The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
Conglutin :: Conglutin (n.) A variety of vegetable casein, resembling legumin, and found in almonds, rye, wheat, etc..
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