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WHEAT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
Synonyms:
pale yellow; straw; wheat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("wheat" is a kind of...):
yellow; yellowness (yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
Synonyms:
wheat; wheat berry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("wheat" is a kind of...):
cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)
Meronyms (parts of "wheat"):
wheat germ (embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wheat"):
bulghur; bulgur; bulgur wheat (parched crushed wheat)
cracked wheat (grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces)
Holonyms ("wheat" is a part of...):
common wheat; Triticum aestivum (widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wheat" is a kind of...):
cereal; cereal grass (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)
Meronyms (parts of "wheat"):
wheat berry (a grain of wheat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind 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)
Holonyms ("wheat" is a member of...):
genus Triticum; Triticum (annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions)
Context examples:
Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley.
(Celiac Disease, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
A digestive disease that is caused by an immune response to a protein called gluten, which is found in wheat, rye, barley, and oats.
(Celiac Disease, NCI Dictionary)
It is found in beans, peas, brown rice, wheat bran and nuts.
(Inositol, NCI Dictionary)
Wheat was at a hundred and ten shillings a quarter, and the quartern loaf at one and ninepence.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Earlier studies by Harvard University researcher Sam Myers and colleagues showed that wheat, maize, rice, field peas and soybeans grown under high carbon dioxide conditions all had lower levels of protein and minerals.
(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)
Oligofructose-enriched inulin is made by combining two substances that occur naturally in many plants, including chicory root, wheat, bananas, onion, and garlic.
(Oligofructose-enriched inulin, NCI Dictionary)
A human nutrition study reaffirms the health benefits of substituting refined-grain products like white bread with whole-grain foods like whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, barley, rye, and brown or wild rice.
(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine enrolled 48 participants aged 4 to 15 years with confirmed allergy to multiple foods, including milk, egg, wheat, soy, sesame seeds, peanut or tree nuts.
(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)
Tens of thousands of these have been cultivated for food at some time by some people, but at present, 103 of them produce about 90 per cent of our food worldwide, while three kinds of grain, maize, rice, and wheat, produce about 60 per cent of the total, the Independent reported.
(Nearly Half the Planet's Species Could Be Wiped Out by the End of This Century, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The analysis of the diet through the isotopes contained in the bone remains has shown that, despite the proximity of the Mediterranean, the diet of these populations was based almost exclusively on animal proteins (meat and derivatives) and on vegetables (especially wheat and barley), but not fish.
(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)
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