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Look up: Wheat

  1. Wheat
    Wheat (triticum vulgare) is a species of hard grass, the seeds of which are ground to make flour.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/B9

  2. Wheat
    Wheat is slang for cannabis.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/PB

  3. wheat
    [n] - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains 2. [n] - grains of common wheat
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Wheat
    The major cereal crop grown in the UK. Wheat falls into two categories, hard, generally suitable for milling (flour) and soft, usually used for distilling animal feed and biscuit making.
    Found on http://www.lethamshank.co.uk/glossary/gl

  5. wheat
    Only the rich could afford a steady diet of meat. Therefore wheat (known to the Romans as corn - frumentum) was the staple food of most Romans. They ate it as bread or as puls (porridge), sometimes adding flavorings or relishes to it. It was the most important food that moved around the Roman Empire. It went from Egypt to Rome in huge grain ships s…
    Found on http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/temetfutue/gl

  6. Wheat
    Wheat (hwēt) noun [ Middle English whete , Anglo-Saxon hwǣte ; akin to Old Saxon hwēti , Dutch weit , German weizen , Old High German weizzi , Icelandic hveiti , Swedish hvete , Danish hvede , Goth. hwaiteis , and English white . See White .] (Botany) A cereal grass ( Triticum vu …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/27

  7. wheat
    <botany> 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. ... Of this grain the varieties are numerous, as red wheat, white wheat, bald wheat, bearded wheat, winter wheat, summer wheat, and the like. Wheat is not known to exist as a wi …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?w

  8. wheat
    wheat berry noun grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. wheat
    noun annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Wheat
    `Wheat` (`Triticum` spp.) is a domesticated grass from the Levant that is cultivated worldwide. Globally, wheat is an important human food, its production being second only to maize among the cereal crops; rice ranks third. and for fermentation to make beer, alcohol, vodka or biofuel. Wheat is planted to a limited extent as a forage crop for livestock, and the straw can be used as fodder for livestock or as a construction material for roofing tha...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat

  11. Wheat
    `Wheat` (`Triticum` spp.) is a domesticated grass from the Levant that is cultivated worldwide. Globally, wheat is an important human food, its production being second only to maize among the cereal crops; rice ranks third. and for fermentation to make beer, alcohol, vodka or biofuel. Wheat is planted to a limited extent as a forage crop for livestock, and the straw can be used as fodder for livestock or as a construction material for roofing tha...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat

  12. Wheat
    • (n.) 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.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. wheat
    cereal grass of the Gramineae (Poaceae) family and of the genus Triticum and its edible grain, one of the oldest and most important of the cereal ... [19 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/w/28

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