HOW TO PRONOUNCE
wheat
/wit/
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What does wheat mean?
noun
- Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
- A light brown color, like that of wheat.
- Ellipsis of wheat bread
More meanings (4)
adjective
- Wheaten, of a light brown color, like that of wheat.
proper noun
- A surname.
- A former community in Roane County, Tennessee, United States, now in the city of Oak Ridge.
- An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
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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.
Little Lucie whispered to me that they were going to have a parlour carpet if they got ninety cents for their wheat.
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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.
When my lady awakes a servant brings her a cup of hot tea and a cake made of wheat or rice flour.
Hevin mentions several cases of grains of wheat abstracted from abscesses of the thoracic parietes, from thirteen to fifteen days after ingestion.