wheat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A cereal grain grown for food and used to make flour for bread, pasta, and other foods.

   The farmers harvested the golden wheat at the end of summer.

2. 2
   noun

   A pale yellowish-brown colour, like that of ripe wheat.

   They painted the kitchen walls a warm shade of wheat.

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

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