Noun | 1. | wheat - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet genus Triticum, Triticum - annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions wheat berry - a grain of wheat durum, durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum - wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America soft wheat - wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals common wheat, Triticum aestivum - widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain spelt, Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta - hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed emmer, starch wheat, Triticum dicoccum, two-grain spelt - hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides, wild emmer, wild wheat - found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat |
2. | wheat - grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour cracked wheat - grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces wheat germ - embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins common wheat, Triticum aestivum - widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain | |
3. | ![]() yellow, yellowness - yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons |