wheaten

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or derived from wheat.

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  • We work directly with owners who find themselves overwhelmed with the responsibility of caring for their wheaten or experience life changing events. —  Plot Monkeys
  • Soon my hair would be wheaten-colored like the hair of the women of the islands and my cheeks would be brown like theirs. —  The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said
  • At Constantinople, there is an officer called the Minar Aga, or superintendent of edifices, whose especial duty it is to prevent this Our author, like Bishop Heber,[12] and other travellers on the same route, is struck by the contrast between the robust and well-fed peasantry of Hindustan Proper, and the puny rice-eaters of Bengal; "who eat fish, boiled rice, bitter oil; and an infinite variety of vegetables; but of wheaten or barley bread, and of pulse, they know not the taste, nor of mutton, fowl, or ghee_, (clarified butter.) —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
  • If our hunger be appeased it matters little whether it is by manna rained down from heaven, or a wheaten loaf raised from the harvest field. —  Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
  • Give wheaten or oatmeal porridge, bread or Saltcoats biscuits, with good buttermilk, and the poor creature, half dead with poisonous "drops," begins ere long to have red on his lips and on his cheeks, some fresh vigour in his muscles, and healthy bone in the course of formation, where bone was only wasting before. —  Papers on Health
 

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  1. from Middle English wheten, hueten, hwæten, from Anglo-Saxon hwæmacr;ten (= Middle Dutch weiten, Dutch wcite- (meel) = German weizen (brod)), from hwæmacr;te, wheat, + -en, English -en.
 

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