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wheat

/wit/

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What does wheat mean?

noun

  1. Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
  2. A light brown color, like that of wheat.
  3. Ellipsis of wheat bread
More meanings (4)

adjective

  1. Wheaten, of a light brown color, like that of wheat.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A former community in Roane County, Tennessee, United States, now in the city of Oak Ridge.
  3. An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States.

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IPA pronunciation

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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The air stirred strongly, and away in an unseen field a reaper clacked and rattled through ripening wheat while the driver whistled.
Gene Stratton-PorterA Girl of the LimberlostProject Gutenberg ebook #125
Little Lucie whispered to me that they were going to have a parlour carpet if they got ninety cents for their wheat.
Willa CatherMy ÁntoniaProject Gutenberg ebook #242
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Whether any considerable area of these sage plains will ever thus be made to blossom in grass and wheat, experience will show.
John MuirSteep TrailsProject Gutenberg ebook #326
When my lady awakes a servant brings her a cup of hot tea and a cake made of wheat or rice flour.
Isaac Taylor HeadlandCourt Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and PeopleProject Gutenberg ebook #523
Hevin mentions several cases of grains of wheat abstracted from abscesses of the thoracic parietes, from thirteen to fifteen days after ingestion.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747