noun
1. a grain of wheat
• Part Holonyms: ↑wheat
2. grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
• Syn: ↑wheat
• Hypernyms: ↑grain, ↑food grain, ↑cereal
• Hyponyms: ↑bulgur, ↑bulghur, ↑bulgur wheat, ↑cracked wheat
• Part Holonyms: ↑common wheat, ↑Triticum aestivum
• Part Meronyms: ↑wheat germ
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the whole kernel of wheat, sometimes cracked or ground and used as a cereal or cooked food, or made into bread.
[1535-45]
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wheat berry or wheat corn noun
The grain of wheat
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Main Entry: ↑wheat
Useful english dictionary. 2012.