wheat Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
  2. noun grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
    wheat berry.
  3. noun a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
    pale yellow; straw.

WordNet

Wheat noun
Etymology
OE. whete, AS. hwte; akin to OS. hwti, D. weit, G. weizen, OHG. weizzi, Icel. hveiti, Sw. hvete, Dan. hvede, Goth. hwaiteis, and E. while. See White.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) 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 wild native plant, and all statements as to its origin are either incorrect or at best only guesses.

Webster 1913