wheat

noun

/ˈwiːt/

Etymology

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, Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz (“white”). More at white.

inherited from *hwaitijaz✻
inherited from *hwaitī✻
inherited from hwǣte
inherited from whete

Definitions

1
Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in…
Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
- They bought a sack of wheat and a sack of rye with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.
2
A light brown color, like that of wheat.
- They debated the paint color options for the bathroom walls and settled on wheat.
3
Ellipsis of wheat bread
- Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye?
›+ 4 more definitionsshow fewer
1. Wheaten, of a light brown color, like that of wheat.
2. A surname.
3. A former community in Roane County, Tennessee, United States, now in the city of Oak…
  A former community in Roane County, Tennessee, United States, now in the city of Oak Ridge.
4. An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at wheat. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at wheat. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at wheat

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA