Wheat - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |wiːt|  American pronunciation of the word wheat
Brit.  |wiːt|  British pronunciation of the word wheat

noun

- annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
- grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
- a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white (syn: straw)

Extra examples

The wheat is pounded into flour.

...that's the total for our wheat harvest this year...

...a young farmer whose family has been growing wheat for many generations...

Our yield of wheat increased this year.

It is time to harvest the wheat.

Wheat and barley are common cereals.

...fields of flaxen wheat waving in the wind...

...we had to furrow the field before we could plant the wheat...

They spent hours gleaning in the wheat fields.

...breakfast cereal consisting of agglomerated clusters of wheat, rice, and nuts stays crunchy in milk...

...some people contend that whole wheat bread is significantly more nutritive than white bread...

Harvesters winnowed the chaff from the wheat.

They bind and cock barley as they do wheat and rye.

When men used to exchange wheat against bullocks.

One load of wheat is a thousand quarters.

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