wheat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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. 2
   noun

   A light brown color, like that of wheat.

   They debated the paint color options for the bathroom walls and settled on wheat.

3. 3
   noun

   Ellipsis of wheat bread

   Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye?

4. 4
   noun

   a variable yellow tint

5. 5
   noun

   grains of common wheat

6. 6
   noun

   annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

7. 7
   adj

   Wheaten, of a light brown color, like that of wheat.

8. 8
   name

   A surname.

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