Wheat

Noun

 * 1)  any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
 * 2)  a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Adjective

 * 1) wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Adjectives for Wheat
fruitless; scythed; yellowing; tender; nodding; ripe; whole; cracked; ground; bleached.

Verbs for Wheat
attack—; consume—; convert—; cultivate—; enrich—; glean—; grind—; harvest—; import—; market—; mill—; pulverize—; sow —; thresh—; trade in—; winnow the chaff.

Thesaurus
Bengal grass, English rye grass, Italian rye grass, Kentucky bluegrass, alfilaria, bamboo, barley, beach grass, beard grass, bent, bent grass, bird seed, black bent, bluegrass, bog grass, bran, buckwheat, buffalo grass, bulrush, bunch grass, canary grass, cane, cat food, chicken feed, chop, corn, cotton grass, crab grass, dog food, eatage, ensilage, feather grass, feed, flyaway grass, fodder, forage, four-leaved grass, grain, grasses, hassock grass, hay, horsetail, little quaking grass, lovegrass, maize, mash, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, meadow grass, meal, millet, myrtle grass, oats, paddy, palm-leaved grass, pampas grass, papyrus, pasturage, pasture, peppergrass, pet food, provender, reed, ribbon grass, rice, rush, rye, scratch, scratch feed, scutch, sedge, sesame, sesame grass, silage, slops, sorghum, straw, striped grass, sugar cane, swill, switch grass, sword grass, tufted hair grass, wild oats, wire grass, woolly beard grass, worm grass, zebra grass, zoysia

Etymology
whete:, from hwæte:, from  (cf. West Frisian weet:, Dutch weit:, German Weizen:), from *hwītaz 'white'. More at white. For semantic development, compare Welsh gwenith: 'wheat', from gwenn: 'white'.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: koring
 * Albanian: grurë
 * Arabic: قمح
 * Armenian: ցորեն (c'oren)
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: gari
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: blat
 * Chickasaw: tili'ko' nihi'
 * Chinese: 麦 (mài)
 * Corsican:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hvede
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: товзюро (tov sjuro)
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Gothic:
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: álkámà
 * Hebrew: חיטה
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: frumento
 * Irish: cruithneacht
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 小麦 (こむぎ, komugi)
 * Korean: 밀 (mil)
 * Kurdish: گه‌نم /


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: kviečiai
 * Macedonian:
 * Marathi: गहू
 * Navajo:
 * Neapolitan: grano
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: kveite
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old Norse:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, grâne
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cruithneachd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пшеница
 * Roman: pšenica
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ngano (class 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Taos: łitǫ́ne
 * Telugu: గోధుమ (gOdhuma)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: bugdaý
 * Ukrainian: пшениця (pšenýtsja)
 * Uyghur: بۇغداي
 * Welsh: gwenith
 * West Frisian: weet


 * Kurdish:
 * Marathi: गह्वाळ (gahvAL)


 * Persian: گندمی
 * Swahili: rangi ya ngano
 * Telugu: గోధుమ రంగు (gOdhuma rangu)

Derived terms

 * buckwheat
 * cracked wheat
 * durum wheat
 * hard wheat
 * Marquis wheat
 * separate the wheat from the chaff
 * shredded wheat
 * soft wheat


 * starch wheat
 * wheat belt
 * wheat bread
 * wheat flour
 * wheat germ
 * wheat rust
 * wheatear
 * wheaten


 * wheaten terrier
 * wheatgrass
 * wheatland
 * wheatmeal
 * wheatworm
 * whole-wheat
 * winter wheat

Related terms

 * white