wheat

• wheate (obsolete)

From Middle English whete, from Old English hwǣte, 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 (“white”). More at white.

• IPA^(key): /wiːt/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /ʍiːt/

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• Rhymes: -iːt

wheat (countable and uncountable, plural wheats)

1. (countable) Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
2. (uncountable) A light brown colour, like that of wheat.

   wheat colour:  

• (grains in Triticum): barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, triticale

wheat (not comparable)

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

• white

• Hewat, wathe