A species of grain (Triticum spelta) related to wheat, formerly much cultivated in southern Europe and still grown in some districts.

A coarse kind of wheat; spelt.

= spelt, n.1

Of the colour of dressed flax: chiefly in reference to the hair. †flaxen wheat (see quots.).

a poor variety of wheat.

Any of numerous varieties of wheat with reddish grains, of varying degrees of hardness.

any variety of wheat with light-coloured grains; cf. red wheat, n.

Red wheat; more fully duck-bill wheat.

The grain spelt, Triticum aestivum spelta. Obsolete.

Hulled grain, esp. of spelt or emmer wheat; a broth or gruel made by boiling this.

= buckwheat, n.

Any of several types or varieties of awned wheat having a high starch content, esp. the primitive wheat emmer, Triticum turgidum dicoccum. Cf. bea…

a species of Cow-wheat (Melampyrum arvense).

A species of wheat having the ripe ear laterally compressed, the spikelets in two very compact rows, each containing, as a rule, one grain. Also…

Awnless wheat. Cf. sense A. 1. Obsolete.

Any of several varieties of the wheat Triticum turgidum. Cf. cone-wheat, n. In singular. More fully rivet wheat.

Sorghum vulgare; also = Saracen corn n. or buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum.

= buckwheat, n. 1a.

= winter wheat.

(a) any variety of wheat, barley, or rye having a high content of starch, esp. a starch wheat (cf. amelcorn, n. and wheat-starch n. at wheat, n.…

In the genitive. einkorn, Triticum monococcum.

A kind of wheat or spelt. Obsolete.

= amelcorn, n., an inferior variety of wheat.

(Usually pol-.) In the names of awnless varieties of cereal, as polbarley, polbere, polwheat. Obsolete.

= duck-bill wheat at duck-bill, n. a.

an imperfect reproduction of the Scriptural expression ‘fat of kidneys of wheat’ Deuteronomy xxxii, 14: cf. Psalm cxlvii. 14 ‘the fat of wheat’…

A variety of wheat (not identified).

†(a) a primitive type of wheat, probably emmer (obsolete rare); (b) wheat having soft or mealy endosperm and a high content of starch; a variety of…

A bearded variety of wheat (so called, according to Lowe (Pract. Agric. 324) from the conical form of the spike). Also cone simply, and cones.

Short for Lammas-wheat n. at compounds 2. Obsolete.

= Polish wheat n. at Polish, n.1 adj.compounds.

buckwheat (see sarrasin, n.).

Bearded wheat.

The chief port of Asia Minor, situated at the head of the gulf of the same name, used attributively in the names of various things produced in the…

wheat of any variety having a hard grain rich in gluten, used esp. to make bread.

(originally) wheat of an inferior grade or type; (in later use) wheat used to feed poultry.

a variety of white wheat with downy ears.

(a) adj. = white-strawed adj. at compounds 1a; †(b) n. a white-strawed variety of wheat (obsolete).

A variety of wheat. Obsolete. rare.

thick-set wheat: see quot. 1808.

Short for cone-wheat, n.

The hulled grains of any of several types of wheat, spec. emmer, spelt, and einkorn, typically used in salads, soups, etc. Also: a plant producing…

the cereal Triticum polonicum, an allotetraploid wheat of the Polonicum group that is now little grown.

= velvet wheat n.

Buckwheat.

a kind of wheat said to have been grown from seed found in Egyptian tombs, (perhaps) rivet wheat, Triticum turgidum.

Used as a name for a variety of wheat or potato.

A high-quality, rust-resistant variety of spring wheat, probably originally of Ukrainian origin, popularized in Canada in the second half of the…

(see quot.).

A species of wheat, Triticum spelta.

Short for thick-set wheat at sense A. 3b.

Spring wheat (see spring wheat n. at compounds 3e(b)); a variety of this.

durum wheat, Triticum durum.

An inferior species of wheat, Triticum monococcum.

In form Marquis. A North American variety of spring wheat. Also in Marquis wheat.

In full durum wheat. A species of wheat, Triticum durum, or one of its varieties, characterized by hard seeds rich in gluten and yielding a flour…

A species of wheat, Triticum dicoccum. Also attributive.

a race of hardy dwarf wheats, grown in mountainous districts of Europe, having dense short ears and awned glumes.

A speltoid wheat.