wheat

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various annual cereal grasses of the genus Triticum of the Mediterranean region and southwest Asia, especially T. aestivum, widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important edible grain.
• noun The grain of any of these grasses, ground to produce flour used in breads, pasta, and other foods.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Present authority tends to include in one botanical species (Triticum æstivum; T. sativum of some authors) all the forms of cultivated wheat except the one-rowed wheat (see einkorn wheat) and the Polish wheat (see below). For the original application of T. æstivum see summer wheat. Two less important subtypes of T ætivum are spelt (which see) and emmer. The remaining varieties (sometimes combined in a subspecies tenax) are divided into four groups, for which see club, durum, poulard, and vulgare wheat. According to the cerealist of the United States Department of Agriculture the United States may be divided into eight wheat-growing districts: the soft wheat district, mainly the Middle and New England States;
• noun the semi-hard winter wheat district, Ohio to Illinois, Michigan, and a small part of Wisconsin;
• noun the southern wheat district, approximately the Southern States;
• noun the hard spring wheat district, the northern States of the plains;
• noun the hard winter wheat district, the middle States of the plains;
• noun the durum wheat district, the southern States of the plains;
• noun the irrigated wheat district, approximately the Rocky Mountain and Basin States;
• noun the white wheat district, the Pacific coast States.
• noun An inferior wheat mainly fed to chickens: a bearded variety hardy and early.
• noun In the United States, commonly any hard-grained variety of the common wheat. Also flint wheat.
• noun Specifically, a red bearded vulgare variety, a standard in Texas, introduced from the islands of the Mediterranean.
• noun A red winter wheat of the vulgare type grown in Poland and southwest Russia.
• noun A hard-grained, beardless, winter vulgare variety of the United States.
• noun The poulard wheat in some of its forms.
• noun A cereal grain, the product of species of Triticum, chiefly of T. sativum (T. vulgare).
• noun Fagopyrum Tataricum, which is cultivated to some extent in the United States, particularly in the northwest.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Bot.) A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.
• noun (Bot.) See Buckwheat.
• noun (Bot.) See 2d Spelt.
• noun (Bot.) a name for Indian corn.
• noun (Bot.) a grain (Fagopyrum Tartaricum) much like buckwheat, but only half as large.
• noun (Bot.) a name for Indian corn.
• noun (Zoöl.) any one of several species of Aphis and allied genera, which suck the sap of growing wheat.
• noun (Zoöl.) A very small, reddish brown, oval beetle (Anobium paniceum) whose larvæ eat the interior of grains of wheat.
• noun (Zoöl.), [Western U. S.] the American widgeon.
• noun (Zoöl.) Same as Wheat midge, below.
• noun (Bot.) a kind of grass (Agropyrum caninum) somewhat resembling wheat. It grows in the northern parts of Europe and America.
• noun (Zoöl.) See Jointworm.
• noun (Zoöl.) any wheat aphid.
• noun (Zoöl.) the larva of a wheat midge.
• noun (Zoöl.) The Hessian fly. See under Hessian.
• noun (Zoöl.) any moth whose larvæ devour the grains of wheat, chiefly after it is harvested; a grain moth. See Angoumois Moth, also Grain moth, under Grain.
• noun (Bot.) gromwell; -- so called because it is a troublesome weed in wheat fields. See Gromwell.
• noun (Zoöl.) a small brown thrips (Thrips cerealium) which is very injurious to the grains of growing wheat.
• noun (Zoöl.) The rice weevil when found in wheat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun countable any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
• noun uncountable a light brown colour, like that of wheat.
• adjective wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
• noun grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
• noun annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains