wheatnoun [ U ]
uk/wiːt/us/wiːt/B2 a plant whose yellowish-brown grain is used for making flour, or the grain itself:
wheat fields
Wheat is a staple crop for millions of people across the world.
See also
wholewheat
More examples
- Many wheat farmers have begun to diversify into other forms of agriculture.
- We drove past fields of ripening wheat.
- If he eats anything with wheat in it he's very sick.
- The new varieties of wheat are good growers even in poor soil.
- In the US, winter wheat is harvested in the early summer.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cereals
- arborio
- barley
- basmati
- bran
- brown rice
- cornflakes
- durum wheat
- granola
- gruel
- hominy
- millet
- muesli
- oat
- oatmeal
- oats
- semolina
- short-grain rice
- sorghum
- wheatgerm
- wild rice
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Common plants
Idiom(s)
separate the wheat from the chaff