wheat

Meanings

Noun

• Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
• A light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Adjective

• Wheaten, of a light brown colour, like that of wheat.

Related

Similar words

• triticum

Origin

• From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz (compare West Frisian weet, Dutch weit, Low German Weten, German Weizen, Danish hvede, Swedish vete, Norwegian Nynorsk kveite, Icelandic hveiti), from *hwītaz. More at white.