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WHEAT BERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 berry" is a kind of...):
cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)
Meronyms (parts of "wheat berry"):
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 berry"):
bulghur; bulgur; bulgur wheat (parched crushed wheat)
cracked wheat (grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces)
Holonyms ("wheat berry" is a part of...):
common wheat; Triticum aestivum (widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wheat berry" is a kind of...):
caryopsis; grain (dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn)
Holonyms ("wheat berry" is a part of...):
wheat (annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains)