Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made from the entire grain of wheat, including the bran.
- adjective Made with whole-wheat flour.
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- adjective of flour made from all the constituents of the
wheat grain - adjective of bread, etc. made from whole-wheat
flour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or derived from wheat
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Examples
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Switch your order to an egg, or scrambled egg whites add some veggies if you like and whole-wheat toast spread with a single pat of butter.
The Small Change Diet Keri Gans 2011
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Small Change Solution: No problem, if you buy real whole-wheat or whole-grain bread.
The Small Change Diet Keri Gans 2011
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I pushed my cart through the store, grabbing ice cream and Sno Balls along with fruit, whole-wheat bagels, peanut butter.
How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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For healthy, lean, and mean sloppy joes we start with lean ground turkey and top them off with 100 percent whole-wheat buns.
True You Janet Jackson 2011
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Let me restore you with some fresh vegetable couscous, whole-wheat pita bread and hummus with tabouli salad, and perhaps yam soup, or would you prefer miso and seaweed?
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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A friend of mine from high school had been diagnosed with it three years ago, and she frequently bemoaned how much she missed whole-wheat bread.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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A friend of mine from high school had been diagnosed with it three years ago, and she frequently bemoaned how much she missed whole-wheat bread.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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I pushed my cart through the store, grabbing ice cream and Sno Balls along with fruit, whole-wheat bagels, peanut butter.
How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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Let me restore you with some fresh vegetable couscous, whole-wheat pita bread and hummus with tabouli salad, and perhaps yam soup, or would you prefer miso and seaweed?
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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"Let's order lots of stuff!" he says with a child's eagerness, then proceeds to eat a stack of pancakes, a six-egg-white omelet stuffed with vegetables, a large bowl of cereal and several pieces of whole-wheat toast.
The big bad boy of the concert hall Anne Midgette 2011
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