wheat

• wheate (obsolete)

From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Bokmål hvete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Faroese and Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white.

• (wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /ˈwiːt/, [ˈwɪi̯t]

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• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /ˈʍiːt/, [ˈʍɪi̯t] ~ [ˈw̥ɪi̯t]
• Rhymes: -iːt
• Hyphenation: wheat

wheat (countable and uncountable, plural wheats)

2. (countable) Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.

   Synonym: triticum

   They bought a sack of wheat and a sack of rye with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.

4. (uncountable) A light brown color, like that of wheat.

   wheat:  

   They debated the paint color options for the bathroom walls and settled on wheat.

6. (uncountable) Ellipsis of wheat bread

   Hypernyms: bread < food

   Coordinate terms: white, rye, pumpernickel

   Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye?

• (grains in Triticum): barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, triticale

wheat (not comparable)

1. Wheaten, of a light brown color, like that of wheat.

• white

• Hewat, aweth, wathe