wheat

Speech parts

1. wheat - Noun

2. wheat - Adjective

3. Wheat - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ceres farina brown corn tan rye moccasin flapjack grass rice bran sesame durum auric feed
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Antonyms

navy amber chrome daffodil black gray
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Hypernyms

plant grain cereal cereal grass food grain

Hyponyms

durum durum wheat bulgur hard wheat spelt emmer

Phrases with the word

wheat-grass shredded wheat never eat Shredded Wheat never eat soggy wheat Russian wheat aphid bread made of wheat

Anagrams

Hewat wathe

Examples

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Elbert Hubbard

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. Adlai Stevenson II

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves. David Ricardo

Who sows barley cannot reap wheat. Persian Proverb

Without sowing a single wheat you would not harvest thousand ones. Azerbaijani Proverb

A good bark year makes a good wheat year. Hindi Proverb

Close letter words and terms

wheal-worm whealworm whear wheat and chessboard problem wheat aphid wheat aphis