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- n annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
- n grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
- n a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
- While the world's currencies were confounding the moneychangers of Europe last week (see above), the world's wheat was doing hardly less to the grain traders of three continents.
- Wheat Meet (See front cover)Fortunately for the British Isles they are small and populous enough to eat all the wheat they can grow, and much more.
- Floods and droughts have pushed world wheat prices to record levels, and the problem threatens to get a lot worse.