common wheat

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common wheat - widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grainTriticum aestivumwheat, wheat berry - grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flourwheat - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains

Common Wheat

(Triticum aestivum), a species of wheat with a tough, awned or awnless, loose, elongated spike and a naked grain of varied coloring (white, yellow, red). Common wheat is hexaploid (contains 42 chromosomes in its somatic cells) and very flexible. The most common species of wheat, it is cultivated in all agricultural regions of the world. It is a winter-hardy, drought-resistant, and early-ripening plant. There are more than 250 known varieties; the most widespread varieties are Lutescens, Erythrospermum, Milturum, Albidum, Ferrugineum, and Graecum.

common wheat

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noun widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain

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Triticum aestivum

Related Words

wheat
wheat berry

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