wheat

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Our land does much the best with the fall wheat, and the wheat is our main dependence I'm rather behind with my own work," began John; "and I heard something said about the Camerons doing your field, with some help Oh, a bee," said Shenac.

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  1. noun 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. noun The grain of any of these grasses, ground to produce flour used in breadstuffs and pasta.

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  • This is threatening 9.5 million hectares of winter wheat, which is planted in the fall and harvested in late spring or early summer. —  Spero News
  • Anhui, another major wheat-growing province, reported that 70 per cent of its 1.62 million hectares of wheat were affected by the "once in 50 years" drought. —  Spero News
  • "You can see the wheat is a bit yellow already, but we're not allowed to irrigate here until after the Lantern Festival," said Wang Baoxi, who was building a house near his fields in Houyan village, in the foothills west of Xingtai. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
  • "You can see the wheat is a bit yellow already, but we're not allowed to irrigate here until after the Lantern Festival (on Monday), so there's plenty of water in the reservoir." —  China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper
  • Our farm has had 2 falls of .8 "over the past 2 weeks and looks like another .8" this weekend which will set us up for an above average yield as the wheat is flowering.
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  1. Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte; see kweit- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English whete, wete, whæte, hwete, huete, quete, from Anglo-Saxon hwæmacr;te = Old Saxon hwēti = Middle Dutch weite, Dutch weit = Middle Low German wēten, weiten, Low German weten = Old High German weizzi, Middle High German weitze, German weizen, also Old High German weizi, Middle High German weize, G. dial, weissen = Icelandic hveiti = Swedish hvete = Danish hvede = Gothic (Moesogothic) hwaiteis, wheat; cf. Lithuanian kwelys, Lett, kweeschi, wheat (prob. from Teutonic); literally ‘that which is white’ (with reference to the color of the grain or the meal), from Anglo-Saxon hwit, etc., white: see white.
 

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