wheat

1. Annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains (synset 112162602)
   is a type of: cereal, cereal grass - grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
   subtypes:

   • durum, 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 America
   • soft wheat - wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals
   • common wheat, triticum aestivum - widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain
   • spelt, triticum aestivum spelta, triticum spelta - hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
   • emmer, starch wheat, triticum dicoccum, two-grain spelt - hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed
   • triticum dicoccum dicoccoides, wild emmer, wild wheat - found wild in Palestine; held to be prototype of cultivated wheat
   belongs to: genus triticum, triticum - annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions
   has: wheat berry - a grain of wheat
2. Grains of common wheat;
   Sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal;
   Usually ground into flour (synset 107819521)
   is a type of: cereal, food grain, grain - foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
   subtypes:

   • bulghur, bulgur, bulgur wheat - parched crushed wheat
   • cracked wheat - grains of wheat that have been crushed into small pieces
   has: wheat germ - embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins
   is a part of: common wheat, triticum aestivum - widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain
   same as: wheat berry
3. A variable yellow tint;
   Dull yellow, often diluted with white (synset 104974118)
   is a type of: yellow, yellowness - yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
   same as: pale yellow, straw

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