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wheat W5114200 (wēt, hwēt)n.1. 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.2. The grain of any of these grasses, ground to produce flour used in breads, pasta, and other foods.
[Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte; see kweit- in Indo-European roots.]wheat (wiːt) n1. (Plants) any annual or biennial grass of the genus Triticum, native to the Mediterranean region and W Asia but widely cultivated, having erect flower spikes and light brown grains2. (Cookery) the grain of any of these grasses, used in making flour, pasta, etc[Old English hwǣte, related to Old Frisian, Old Saxon hwēti, Old High German hweizi, Old Norse hveiti; see white]wheat (ʰwit, wit)
n. 1. the grain of any cereal grass of the genus Triticum, esp. T. aestivum, used in the form of flour. 2. the plant itself. [before 900; Middle English whete, Old English hwǣte, c. Old Saxon hwēti, Old High German weizi, Old Norse hveiti, Gothic hwaiteis; akin to white] wheat′less, adj. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | wheat - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grainscereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; milletgenus Triticum, Triticum - annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regionswheat berry - a grain of wheatdurum, durum wheat, hard wheat, macaroni wheat, Triticum durum, Triticum turgidum - wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North Americasoft wheat - wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cerealscommon wheat, Triticum aestivum - widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grainspelt, Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta - hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feedemmer, starch wheat, Triticum dicoccum, two-grain spelt - hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feedTriticum dicoccum dicoccoides, wild emmer, wild wheat - found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat | | 2. | wheat - grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flourwheat berryfood grain, grain, cereal - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grassesbulghur, bulgur, bulgur wheat - parched crushed wheatcracked wheat - grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieceswheat germ - embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitaminscommon wheat, Triticum aestivum - widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain | | 3. |  wheat - a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with whitepale yellow, strawyellow, yellowness - yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons |
Translationswheat (wiːt) noun a type of grain from which flour, much used in making bread, cakes etc, is obtained. 小麥 冬小麦ˈwheaten adjective made of wheat. a wheaten loaf. 小麥做的 面粉的，小麦的 wheat
separate the wheat from the chaffTo separate the good or valuable from that which is inferior. With so many manuscripts arriving daily, it's a challenge to separate the wheat from the chaff and spot the really exceptional ones.See also: chaff, separate, wheatseparate the wheat from the chaffProv. to separate what is useful or valuable from what is worthless. When it comes to books, time will separate the wheat from the chaff. Good books will have lasting appeal, and the rest will be forgotten. The managers hoped that the new procedure for evaluating employees would separate the wheat from the chaff.See also: chaff, separate, wheatseparate wheat from chaffSort the valuable from the worthless, as in I hope we'll get a preview of the auction so we can separate the wheat from the chaff. This idiom alludes to the ancient practice of winnowing grain. See also: chaff, separate, wheatseparate the wheat from the chaff or separate the grain from the chaff If you separate the wheat from the chaff or separate the grain from the chaff, you decide which things or people in a group are good or necessary, and which are not. The first two rounds of the contest separate the wheat from the chaff. Judges should not forget that when you separate the wheat from the chaff, you should try to keep the wheat. Note: You can use sort or sort out instead of separate. It's up to Wilkinson to sort out the wheat from the chaff and get the team back to the top of the table. Note: You can refer to the good or necessary things or people in a group as wheat or grain, and to the others as chaff. There's so little wheat in all this chaff. Was there rather less grain than chaff? Note: `Chaff' refers to the outer covers of wheat or other cereal which are separated from the grain by a process called winnowing. In the Bible (Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17), John the Baptist uses the image of someone separating the wheat from the chaff to describe how Jesus will separate those who go to heaven from those who go to hell. See also: chaff, separate, wheatseparate (or sort) the wheat from the chaff distinguish valuable people or things from worthless ones. Chaff is the husks of corn or other seed separated out when the grain is winnowed or threshed. The metaphorical contrast between wheat and chaff is drawn in several passages in the Bible, for example in Matthew 3:12: ‘he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire’.See also: chaff, separate, wheatsort out/separate the ˌwheat from the ˈchaff separate people or things of a better quality from those of a lower quality: When all the applications came in, our first task was to separate the wheat from the chaff. Chaff is the outer covering of the seeds of grain such as wheat, which is separated from the grain before it is used.See also: chaff, out, separate, sort, wheatseparate the wheat from the chaff, toTo sort the valuable from the worthless. The analogy here is to the age-old practice of winnowing grain, formerly done by hand and now mechanized. The term persists nevertheless. G. B. McCutcheon used it in Anderson Crow (1920): “They separated the wheat from the chaff.”See also: separate, wheatwheat
wheat, cereal plant of the genus Triticum of the family Poaceae (grassgrass,
any plant of the family Poaceae (formerly Gramineae), an important and widely distributed group of vascular plants, having an extraordinary range of adaptation. Numbering approximately 600 genera and 9,000 species, the grasses form the climax vegetation (see ecology) in
..... Click the link for more information. family), a major food and an important commodity on the world grain market. Wheat Varieties and Their Uses The wheat plant is an annual, probably derived from a perennial; the ancestry of and precise distinctions between species are no longer always clear. For its early growth wheat thrives best in cool weather, though plant breeders have developed durum strains that thrive in hot weather. Among the more ancient, and now less frequently cultivated, species are einkorn (T. monococcum), emmer (T. dicoccum), and spelt (T. spelta). Modern wheat varieties are usually classified as winter wheats (fall-planted and unusually winter hardy for grain crops) and spring wheats. Approximately three fourths of the wheat grown in the United States is winter wheat. Flour from hard wheats (varieties evolved for the most part from T. aestivum) contains a high percentage of glutengluten,
mixture of proteins present in the cereal grains. The long molecules of gluten, insoluble in water, are strong and flexible and form many cross linkages. This gives flour its characteristic chewiness and permits breads and cakes to rise during baking as the gases within
..... Click the link for more information. and is used to make bread and fine cakes. The hardest-kerneled wheat is durum (T. durum); its flour is primarily used in the manufacture of macaroni, spaghetti, and other pasta products. White- and soft-wheat varieties are paler and have starchy kernels; their flour is preferred for piecrust, biscuits, and breakfast foods. Wheat is used in the manufacture of whiskey and beer, and the grain, the bran (the residue from milling), and the vegetative plant parts make valuable livestock feed. Before the introduction of corn into Europe, wheat was the principal source of starch for sizing paper and cloth. Diseases and Pests Wheat is susceptible to many pests and diseases, the more destructive including rustrust,
in botany, name for various parasitic fungi of the order Uredinales and for the diseases of plants that they cause. Rusts form reddish patches of spores on the host plant. About 7,000 species are known.
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name for an order of parasitic fungi (Ustilaginales) and the various diseases of plants caused by them. Smuts produce sootlike masses of spores on the host. The spore masses may break up into a dustlike powder readily scattered by wind (loose smuts) or remain more or less
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European gall gnat, Phytophaga destructor, so named because it was first observed in America shortly after the Hessian troops landed on Long Island in the American Revolution. It is one of the most destructive pests of wheat, barley, and rye.
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small North American bug, Blissus leucopterus, of the seed bug family. It feeds on small grains, corn, and other grasses, sucking the plant juices and doing much damage to crops, particularly in the Midwest. The adults, about 1/8 in. (3.
..... Click the link for more information. . All wheat-producing countries carry on breeding experiments to improve existing varieties or to obtain new ones with such dominant characteristics as disease resistance, increased hardiness under specific environments, and greater yield. Wheat Production Today The great wheat-producing countries of the world are the United States, China, and Russia; extensive wheat growing is carried on also in India, W Europe, Canada, Argentina, and Australia. In the United States the wheat belt covers the Ohio Valley, the prairie states, and E Oregon and Washington; Kansas leads the states in production. Large-scale mechanized farming and continued planting of wheat without regard to crop rotation have exhausted the soil of large areas. High-yield wheat, one of the grains resulting from the Green RevolutionGreen Revolution,
term referring mainly to dramatic increases in cereal-grain yields in many developing countries beginning in the late 1960s, due largely to use of genetically improved varieties. Beginning in the mid-1940s in Mexico researchers led by American Norman E.
..... Click the link for more information. , requires optimal growth conditions, e.g., adequate irrigation and high concentrations of fertilizer. History Wheat was one of the first of the grains domesticated by humans (see graingrain,
in agriculture, term referring to the caryopsis, or dry fruit, of a cereal grass. The term is also applied to the seedlike fruits of buckwheat and of certain other plants and is used collectively for any plant that bears such fruits.
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or New Stone Age.
The term neolithic is used, especially in archaeology and anthropology, to designate a stage of cultural evolution or technological development characterized by the use of stone tools, the existence of settled villages largely
..... Click the link for more information. ; some ancient species of wheat were domesticated by 10,000 years ago in what is now Turkey. A millennium later wheat had spread to the Near East, and it was cultivated in Egypt by 5000 B.C. By way of Iran, wheat reached India around 4000 B.C. and China around 2000 B.C. About 8,000 years ago it arrived in Greece from Turkey, and then spread throughout Europe, reaching Britain around 3000 B.C. The civilizations of W Asia and of the European peoples have been largely based on wheat, while ricerice,
cereal grain (Oryza sativa) of the grass family (Graminae), probably native to the deltas of the great Asian rivers—the Ganges, the Chang (Yangtze), and the Tigris and Euphrates.
..... Click the link for more information. has been more important in E Asia. Since agriculture began, wheat has been the chief source of bread for Europe and the Middle East. It was introduced into Mexico by the Spaniards c.1520 and into Virginia by English colonists early in the 17th cent. Classification Wheat is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Liliopsida, order Cyperales, family Poaceae (Gramineae). Bibliography See publications issued by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; P. T. Dondlinger, The Book of Wheat (1908, repr. 1973); L. T. Evans and W. J. Peacock, ed. Wheat Science: Today and Tomorrow (1981). What does it mean when you dream about wheat?A symbol of prosperity and nourishment, wheat can also suggest that the dreamer can “separate the wheat from the chaff.” wheat[wēt] (botany) A food grain crop of the genus Triticum; plants are self-pollinating; the inflorescence is a spike bearing sessile spikelets arranged alternately on a zigzag rachis. wheat any annual or biennial grass of the genus Triticum, native to the Mediterranean region and W Asia but widely cultivated, having erect flower spikes and light brown grains Wheat (dreams)Wheat is a primordial basic food. The nature of wheat is such that it has been given symbolic meaning in mythology and religion. It is considered the fruit of the Earth, a gift of life and the gift of the gods. It is associated with purity, covenant, and blessing. It may also be considered the basic food of immortality. In Greek mythology, a single grain of wheat was displayed at the wedding of Zeus and Demeter. Demeter was a great mother, a fertility goddess, and was responsible for the seasons. A grain of wheat was symbolic of the cycle of the seasons and the cycle of life. When planted, one grain of wheat produces many on an ear of wheat. As a dream symbol, it may be pointing to your inner “food, ” or the abundance that the unconscious holds. It may also represent the “plenty” that surrounds you in your daily life. Wheat may symbolize abundance and its ability to continuously regenerate itself. This dream may be a reminder from the unconscious, which tells us that abundance and prosperity is in our nature, as is rebirth of thepsychological, emotional, and spiritual type.wheat
wheat (hwēt) [AS. hwaete] Any of various cereal grasses, widely cultivated for its edible grain used in making flour. Wheat preparations and pastas include macaroni, vermicelli, and noodles, which are made from flour and water, molded, dried, and slightly baked. They are easy to digest. StructureWheat is composed of the husk or outer coat, which is removed before grinding; bran coats, which are removed in making white flour and contain the mineral substances; gluten, which contains the fat and protein; and starch, the center of the kernel. Refined wheat products do not include the bran and germ, which contain B complex vitamins, phosphorus, and iron. Individuals who are gluten intolerant (e.g., persons with celiac sprue) cannot digest the protein gluten found in wheat. Patient discussion about wheatQ. I am a NIDDM diabetic and my diet primarily consists of items which are prepared using wheat. Hello, I am a NIDDM diabetic and my diet primarily consists of items which are prepared using wheat. I do not eat rice and potatoes as I follow the diet pattern provided by my doctor and it works well for me most of the times. However I feel tempted and could not always stick to the diet that has been prescribed to me. I feel that I need to try eating different items and at the same time do not wish to fall in to a trap. I knew I am trying to go out of the way but I just cannot resist with the existing methodology and wish how I could change the current situation. I get tempted when I go to parties or food festivals and I am being upset. Infact I do love taking sweets and I have not tried anything silly so far. I do not want to take any risk but just wanted to know from the fellow members here that is there any possibility that I could try some sweet? Any suggestions?A. daronstorm, there are wonderful diabetic cakes that you can eat!! my best friend is diabetic and she is also an excellent cook. she has dozens of different recipes for diabetic cakes and cookies. she uses sugarless sweeteners and also sugarless candies.
here are some links i found just by googling "diabetic desserts" -
http://www.easy-diabetic-recipes.com/diabetic-cake-recipes.html
http://diabeticgourmet.com/recipes/Desserts/Cakes/
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WheatA cereal used in a large number of products, especially food. Wheat is contained in bread, cake, beer, pasta and even some fuels. Wheat is a major commodity and its contracts are traded on exchanges.WHEAT
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Synonyms for wheatnoun annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grainsRelated Words- cereal
- cereal grass
- genus Triticum
- Triticum
- wheat berry
- durum
- durum wheat
- hard wheat
- macaroni wheat
- Triticum durum
- Triticum turgidum
- soft wheat
- common wheat
- Triticum aestivum
- spelt
- Triticum aestivum spelta
- Triticum spelta
- emmer
- starch wheat
- Triticum dicoccum
- two-grain spelt
- Triticum dicoccum dicoccoides
- wild emmer
- wild wheat
noun grains of common wheatSynonymsRelated Words- food grain
- grain
- cereal
- bulghur
- bulgur
- bulgur wheat
- cracked wheat
- wheat germ
- common wheat
- Triticum aestivum
noun a variable yellow tintSynonymsRelated Words |